Of course the elephant in the room are all the atrocities that were perpetuated by the Catholic Church in the Dark Ages (Middle Ages) and of course there were atrocities by Protestant groups. This illustrates why NO CHURCH is the Source of Truth.
We are to be a Witness and Expression of the Truth (Jesus Christ) but we are not the SOURCE.
Today, more and more denominations are no longer calling sin, SIN. Witness the denominations that affirm the LBGT lifestyle.
LGBT-affirming Christian denominations
This list is only going to grow and God will use the infiltration of the world into men's religious organizations to CALL those who are slumbering to AWAKE and COME OUT OF HER.
[background=transparent]850 Ireland's Catholic Priests want end to celibacy, allow gay relationships & women ordained[/background]
Catholic Priest calls Celibacy a MAN MADE LAW. He does say "it is not a dogma but it comes across that way because of how it is enforced." Says the call of celibacy has to come from God and not a human. Also, says Peter was married and the first 14 popes were married. Says a lot that I agree with. (there are 3 parts).
[background=transparent]Celibacy: A Bold New Vision Pt. 1 - The Defining Moment[/background]
There is so much confusion and division in the Catholic Church that it is just as preposterous to think that it is the Pillar and Ground of the Truth as it is to consider the Methodist, Lutheran or Episcopal Church as the Pillar and Ground of the Truth. The TRUTH all rests with JESUS, the Head of the Church. No one has ALL the TRUTH. Only Jesus has ALL of the TRUTH because HE IS TRUTH. We all have a part of it, but only He has all of it.
Good posting Rex and Jiggyfly.
Axehead
Axe, don't you see that you have stated to be only partly right?
"We all have a part of it, but only He has all of it. "
It is invariably the case that even so called "advanced" Christians have a good sense about Jesus (the Head) and even their own walk with Him....but completely ignore the purpose of the entity called the "Ecclesia".
Who can discern the Body? This thread is ample proof of the rarity of this.
The church witness is sick and dying because we cannot seem to discern the Body.
1Co 10:17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
1Co 10:24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's
1Co 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
1Co 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
Paul is accurately describing the present state of the church. But people will remain blind to this as it is prophesied.