“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.”
When -everybody- knows it really looked more like a feudal monarchy, complete with castles, swiss guards, a body of law, lawyers to interpret that law, and a structural hierarchy of lesser offices, and diplomats to governments. The only reason they dont have hereditary sucession is that they don’t believe in marriage.
Those guys in the temple Christ busted up were pikers compared to the Roman church.
When -everybody- knows it really looked more like a feudal monarchy, complete with castles, swiss guards, a body of law, lawyers to interpret that law, and a structural hierarchy of lesser offices, and diplomats to governments. The only reason they dont have hereditary sucession is that they don’t believe in marriage.
Those guys in the temple Christ busted up were pikers compared to the Roman church.
>>Ad hominem attacks are poor substitutes for actual substantive arguments.
DesertRhino:
Theologically and Liturgically and culturally it was Catolic. It was from the time of the Apostles and the pre-Nicene Fathers and post Nicene Fathers clearly Catholic in the sense empracing both Latin West and Greek East. The fact that architecture and swiss guards are extensials and can change over time, diplomats only reflect that times have evolved thus mechanisms to deal wth modern culture have changed.
So back to my point, it was from the Theological that I was stating it was Catholic and looked nothing like the yahoo American Protestant rural culture.
funny, when i went to Mass today to receive the Eucharist as Christians have done for 2,000 years, i didn’t see any castles, swiss guards, lawyers, diplomats, etc.
the Church is Universal, it was here in 95ad, 295ad, 646ad, 908ad and 2012ad.
desertrhino, do you agree with Joseph Smith that the Church went apostate in the late 1st century?