Dear enow,
If one is not the fruit of the union of the Bridegroom and His holy bride, whos child are they?
Christ and His Church are One!
Peace be with you!
Dear Brother Philip James,
Since it is a Catholic prophesy that the Vatican will be destroyed for when they will move their headquarters to Jerusalem, whose child are the Catholics then?
We are not to be identified by a church but by our faith in Jesus Christ in how we are all the children of God. Remember this reproof?
1 Corinthians 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; 15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name. 16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.... 21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.... 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Since it si by believing in the preaching of the cross is how we are saved and God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:for why we glory in the Lord. then no church can lord over others by creating division of being how any believer shall receive water baptism, let alone make it a sacrament that only the Catholic Church can give in obtaining salvation within that Catholic Church. The Catholic Church divides the body of Christ by insisting baptism thru their denomination only.
1 Corinthians 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Sometime along the way, the Church at Rome became carnal by demanding only thru her doors can salvation be achieved when coming to and believing in Jesus Christ is how any one becomes a member of His body of believers hence the real Church with Him as the chief cornerstone.