re: Point to Ponder #1: Misuse of the word “Church”

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Um... so anyone who isn't catholic isn't a member of a Church?

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You misunderstood sir. The word Catholic, in the context of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ means the following:

“Orthodox Christians understand the word “catholic” word to mean “whole, complete, lacking in nothing.” Hence, when we say “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church,” we mean that the one, holy, and apostolic Church is “whole, complete, and lacking in nothing.”

The word “catholic” with a small “c” has nothing whatsoever to do with Roman “Catholic” with a capital “C”. If it were incorrect to use the word “catholic” in the Nicene Creed, we wouldn’t use it”

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Y'all don't own sole claim to decide who are members of the body of Christ, no matter how much you want and try to.

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You’re 100% correct, I have absolutely no right nor claim to decide who is and isn’t a member of the Church.

Jesus Christ as the cornerstone laid the foundation on which the Church is built. After Christ ascended into Heaven and took His seat at the right hand of the Father, He sent the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles at Pentecost as attested to in the Acts of the Apostles as written by St. Luke.

From there the Church spread like wildfire amongst the darkness with apostolic succession unbroken from 33 A.D. to this very day.

It is Christ Himself who directed us to uphold the Eucharist whenever we gathered together and to walk the narrow way unto salvation.

Any gathering that “teaches another gospel” than that has to make peace with the dissonance.