Actually, I said 'called Christian'--as in, indirect object. I deliberately left who called people "Christian" open, so as to include all possible answers (including the ones that God calls 'Christian,' i.e., Christ-like).
Denominations are groups of people who call themselves Christians but are in fact made up of Christians and non Christians...It is only the Christians in a denomination who are the church, the Body of Christ...
The Parable of the Tares definitely militates against that particular viewpoint.
There is no Church...There are churches..There is no catholic, apostolic church....
You must not believe the Apostles' Creed, then. "I believe in the holy catholic church, the communion of saints...."
Why is it called the Apostles' Creed...They never mentioned a Catholic Church...Or communion of the Saints...
Now there's a ten dollar word...But no, that's not true...Perhaps you make the same error the Catholics make with that parable...They use that verse to claim there are tares in the Church...All one has do is read the scriptures...It tells you right there that the context is the world, NOT the church...
The wheat and tares are in the world...The wheat only is the church...