Posted on 04/20/2015 11:50:07 AM PDT by NRx
The question was answered in the article.
That was sarcasm.
No it wasn’t and neither have you. Stop wasting our time if you are not going to address questions put to you.
“The Roman Catholic Church claims to be the one true church.
The Eastern Orthodox Church claims to be the one true church.
Just how any one true churches are there in the Catholic sphere?
This one true church the article speaks of, is which one of the 7 churches Jesus says there are in the book of Revelation?
The writer does not discern the word of God Eph 4:6 and confuses denominations with the one true church. which is not just in one denomination.”
There is no catholic sphere. There is only the Only Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Rome separated from the Church over a period of several centuries beginning in the 9th century. (They obviously would disagree. But your asking an Orthodox Christian so your getting the Orthodox answer.)
The seven churches noted in the Apocalypse of St. John are or were local (small ‘c’) churches. Wherever there is a bishop or a synod of bishops you have local churches. Provided they are Orthodox they are part of the The Church.
The concept of denominationalism is a purely Protestant invention. No where can it be found before the 15th-16th centuries. Prior to that one was understood to be either in the Church, or outside of it. That is of course the correct (orthodox) understanding. Those outside the Church include schismatics and the heterodox.
The community (Church) of Jesus started long before either the Roman or Orthodox formed. This same community of Jesus continues today, it is what we call “the Church of Jesus”.
Are you saying you believe only Orthodox Catholics are Christians?
“The community (Church) of Jesus started long before either the Roman or Orthodox formed. This same community of Jesus continues today, it is what we call “the Church of Jesus”.
That is a position completely unsupported by the evidence from the early church.
“Are you saying you believe only Orthodox Catholics are Christians?”
No. I am saying that the Orthodox Church alone holds the fullness of the faith. All other Christian churches and sects are separated from that fullness of truth. There are of course degrees of separation and error.
LOL
“The community (Church) of Jesus started long before either the Roman or Orthodox formed. This same community of Jesus continues today, it is what we call “the Church of Jesus”.
That is a position completely unsupported by the evidence from the early church.
That is a position completely supported by the evidence from the early church. The Roman or Orthodox are nothing like the early church. There is no power as there was in the early church because of he presence of God. There is no foundation as there was in the early church because the Word was alive and the foundation of all their teaching.
Ummm... no. See
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3258163/posts
If you can cite any works from credible sources that refute this I would be interested in seeing it.
Yea the Book of Acts...read it sometime.
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