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What the Bible says of Jesus' Only Church

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What the Bible says of Jesus' Only Church
1. Church is the Pillar of Truth, Manifold of Wisdom
2. A Church Witnessing unto all nations, so undoubtedly one Visible to all
3. One Single Visible Church in succession till His return
4. Revelation 12 - Church in the wilderness - not an invisible church
5. No separate invisible on earth ; One General Assembly: Visible on Earth with invisible in Heaven
6. An Imperfect Kingdom with Good & Bad Co-existing
7. The Vineyard appointed to new imperfect servants with successive authority till His return
Church Fathers say their church is Catholic
What the founder of Sola Scriptura & Sola Fide said of the Catholic Church
Did Luther or any other have the authority from the Lord or His Church
Who then is the Whore of Babylon?
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Protestants claim that the True church had gone apostate and that a small group of true believers survived alongside the apostate church. Some say that a True church other that the one gone apostate existed all along but in an invisible state. Well the Bible does not support this view. This view in against Jesus's own words.

 

Christ instituted One church and prayed that it remain One throughout successive generations for the world to ‘see & know’ that they are His disciples..

 

The bible says, the  Church or Kingdom on earth is;

  

1.    His church is the Pillar & Bulwark of truth, it is
the manifold of wisdom, it is
the fulness of Christ
Himself
. The
gates of hell will not prevail against
His church
. His Holy Spirit is with the church
forever’. His Spirit will guide the church into all truth. Jesus is
with His church
alwaystill the end. 1Tim 3:15;
Eph:1:22-23; Eph 3:9,10; Mt 16:18,19; Jn 14:16;
Jn 16:12-14
(Click to read more..).
 

2.    A church witnessing unto all nations, so undoubtedly a
church visible to all nations
. This witnessing and gathering church
has the presence of Christ ‘always’ till the end of the world. A church visibly seen and known to the world throughout successive generations from the time of Jesus. Mt 28:19, 20; Jn 17:20-22; Ro:10:14-18; M't:5:14-16 ; Joh:13:34-35; Joh:17:20-22; Ph'p:2:15: M't:10:27, 28: 2Tm:1:7,8: M't:24:14: Joh:17:18: (Click to read more..)
 

3.    His church is One Single Visible Fold ‘seen and known’
by the world, in continuous succession. Heresies and
divisions happen to manifest the approved ones and to
manifest
the ones who leave the church as the one who
did not belong to the church
. Joh:17:20-22; Eph:4:4-6;
1Co:12:11-13, 20, 25, 28:; 1Co:11:18, 19:; 1Jo:2:18-20;
M't:13:31, 32
(Click to read more..).
 

4.    The church in the wilderness portrayed in Revelation
chapter 12 in no way hints to an invisible church as the
anti catholic propagate , but to a church living in the
direct protection and providence of God as enjoyed by
the disciples in the Acts of the Apostles similar to 
the
Old testament church in the wilderness
. Exodus 19:4;
Deut 32:11; Isaiah 40:31; Acts 7:38 (Click to read more
......)
 

5.    No separate invisible church on earth ; One General
 Assembly or habitation or family of the imperfect
Visible on Earth with invisible in Heaven.
Heb:12:18-24; Eph:2:18-22; 1Co:12:11-13, 20, 25, 28; Re:1:11-20;
1Co:6:13,15-20; Eph:5:23-32; 
 (Click to read more..)  
 

6.    An imperfect Church with good & bad co-existing. A
Kingdom appointed to imperfect servants in charge in succession ‘till His return
’. M't:13:24-30 & 37-41: Joh:15:1-8: M'r:13:34-37: Lu:12:41-46 (Click to read more..)
 

7.    The Vineyard of the Lord or the House of Israel is
appointed to new imperfect servants with successive
authority ‘till His return
’. M't:21:33-43: Lu:22:24-32:
M'r:13:34-37 (Click to read more..)

 

The only church that can rightfully claim succession to the church of the apostolic era is the Catholic church. The Reformers also affirmed this fact, but they said that this church had become corrupt, a theory that is against what Christ's promises to His church and against what the Bible teaches about the church. The Bible assures that this church cannot go corrupt.

 

 

 

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