Does anything you quoted above put the word Catholic in the bible? Does the fact that the word “bible” doesn't appear in the bible mean there is no bible?
As I pointed out the word “Christian” appears in what everyone knows as the bible many times, but NOT the word Catholic. Whether Trinity or (you forgot) rapture appear in the bible has NOTHING to do with the fact that Catholic doesn't. Lots of words don't appear in the bible. Catholic happens to be one of them. The bible says they were “Christians” not Catholics. Get your facts right.
Catholic Christians were calling themselves “Catholic Christians” 300 years before they were in agreement about the books that make up your New Testament, and less than 20 years after the death of the last Apostle.
faucetman:
Rapture does not appear in the Bible and is a heresy. Nobody believed or proposed that nonsense until the 19th century. So lets get your facts straight.
The word Trinity is in fact not in the Bible, the Doctrine of the Trinity is implcit in the Sacred Scriptures and is pointed to, but it was not formally defined until the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. And it does have to do with what is in the Bible or not because you are imposing your protesant notion of priesthood of all belivers sola scriptura on the scriptures which itself is nonsense.
The arrogance of many American protestants to think that Christiantity, which grew up in a Roman-Greek Culture looked like modern American Fundalmentalist-evangelical protesantism is a joke.
The Church was termed Catholic well before the NT canon was definitively defined and that is a “FACT” which has been pointed out many times here [I have done it myself so many times that My head spins]. And that NT canon was defined by, shhhhhh, sorry to tell you, but the Catholic Church.
Does the fact that the word “Catholic” doesn’t appear in the bible mean there is no such thing? Does the fact that the word “bible” doesn’t appear in the bible mean there is no bible?