I know that someone is going to say, "but the Church that Jesus founded wasn't called the Catholic Church."
But, it wasn't called the "Baptist Church", or the "Pentecostal Church" or the "Presbyterian Church" or the "Lutheran Church" or the "Methodist Church" or the "Seventh Day Adventist Church" or the "Episcopalian Church" or the "Anglican Church", etc, either.
In the bible, the Church was called simply "The Church"
Catholic means "universal" which is what "The Church" has always been. So the name "Catholic Church".
Most people just go by what someone told them and assume that that person knew what they were talking about, or they read something in a novel of fiction and assume that it's true.
Why can't people actually do some research in history books for themselves to see how old the Catholic Church is and who actually founded it? A simple process of elimination in looking at the history of all the other Christian congregations will show that most have modern day founders.
2006-07-02
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