Who is part of the One True Church?

Question

When Catholics talk about the One True Church are they talking about only Roman Catholics or all churches that call themselves Catholic like the Eastern Catholic churches - reading a little bit about these churches reminds me of Protestant denominations

Answer 1

Forget about what Catholics say or what Protestants say or what Christians say...... the 'true church' talked about it the scripture is not one of denomination... it's one of HEART. If a person has a heart for God and follows Him... no matter what religion he/she is from... they are part of the true church. The true church would the group of the remnant of God that survives this world seeking and teaching the things of God. These people are from all walks fo life that speak different tongues and are from diff cultures. DO you really think that having such a big God as we do (assuming you are a believer)... that He would restrict Himself to just one denomination or one country............................ No>>> He's too big for that!

Answer 2

Protestants being thus impious enough to make liars of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Ghost, and of the Apostles, need we wonder if they continually slander Catholics, telling and believing worse absurdities about them than the heathens did? What is more absurd than to preach that Catholics worship stocks and stones for gods; set up pictures of Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other saints, to pray to them, and put their confidence in them; that they adore a god of bread and wine; that their sins are forgiven by the priest, without repentance and amendment of life; that the pope or any other person can give leave to commit sin, or that for a sum of money the forgiveness of sins can be obtained ? To these and similar absurdities and slanders, we simply answer: "Cursed is he who believes in such absurdities and falsehoods, with which Protestants impiously charge the children of the Catholic Church. All those grievous transgressions are another source of their reprobation."

"But what faith can we learn from these false teachers when, in consequence of separating from the Church, they have no rule of faith? ... How often Calvin changed his opinions! And, during his life, Luther was constantly contradicting himself: on the single article of the Eucharist, he fell into thirty-three contradictions! A single contradiction is enough to show that they did not have the Spirit of God. "He cannot deny Himself" (II Timothy 2:13). In a word, take away the authority of the Church, and neither Divine Revelation nor natural reason itself is of any use, for each of them may be interpreted by every individual according to his own caprice ... Do they not see that from this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the immense variety of heretical and atheistic sects? ... I repeat: if you take away obedience to the Church, there is no error which will not be embraced.

Source(s):
Against the Reformers
Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible online

Additional Reading

St Alphonsus Mary De Liguori (1696-1787)
Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Answer 3

OBVIOUSLY, = = It is Not A Denomination!

The Church is comprised of those THAT HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT! See John 7:28-39 As JESUS Said!

The Gospel, WAS TO BE PREACHED to Evey Nation, to Every Kindred and to Every Tongue!

Jews and Gentiles ALIKE comprise the Real Church!

THAT Denomination THAT ALLOWED THEIR Periests to MOLEST BOYS, = is not the real church! Their Leader the pope = paid fines and enumerations AND aloud the priests and bishops TO ESCAPE JAIL TIME!

Could that be the real church?

NOT, no never!

Thanks, RR

Answer 4

Catholics say the church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic.

The one means all Christians.

+ The Church is one +
She acknowledges one Lord, confesses one faith, is born of one Baptism, forms only one Body, is given life by the one Spirit, for the sake of one hope (cf. Eph 4:3-5), at whose fulfillment all divisions will be overcome.

+ The Church is holy +
The Most Holy God is her author; Christ, her bridegroom, gave himself up to make her holy; the Spirit of holiness gives her life. Since she still includes sinners, she is "the sinless one made up of sinners." Her holiness shines in the saints; in Mary she is already all-holy.

+ The Church is catholic +
She proclaims the fullness of the faith. She bears in herself and administers the totality of the means of salvation. She is sent out to all peoples. She speaks to all men. She encompasses all times. She is "missionary of her very nature"

+ The Church is apostolic +
She is built on a lasting foundation: "the twelve apostles of the Lamb" (Rev 21:14). She is indestructible (cf. Mt 16:18). She is upheld infallibly in the truth: Christ governs her through Peter and the other apostles, who are present in their successors, the Pope and the college of bishops.

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

Eastern Orthodox was the first christian church created. Catholics are a split off from it.

Answer 6

There are MANY One True Church, and that's why there is so much arguing/fighting in the world!

Answer 7

God said, Do not build me temples of stone. Split a piece of wood and you will find me. Lift a stone and I am there. The House of God is all around you, all that was created. That is the one true church. God said so and Jesus preached it. Why do you think he preached on stones next to rivers?

Answer 8

The body of Christ.
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FORGET RELIGION
Christ is the path of salvation.
Christ is the truth of God's Word.
Christ is the life eternal.

Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.

Christ is the tree of life.

Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

God's Word is not a religion but a reality.
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Answer 9

good grief does ANYONE here actually read your Bibles the one true church is your BODY...not Christ not christs Body but it is YOUR body it is MY body the church is the body of believers...

Answer 10

There are no true churches. They are all founded on the belief that there are gods, but there are none. They are all baseless.