What is the true church based on the Bible alone?

Question

Please indicate your reasons and beliefs if they comply with the Bible

Answer 1

The true Church is the one founded by Jesus Christ. That happens to be the Catholic Church. It is the only Church that can prove a direct and unbroken line of succession from Jesus Christ to St. Peter up to the present pope.

The first Christians had no doubts about how to determine which was the true Church and which doctrines the true teachings of Christ. The test was simple: Just trace the apostolic succession of the claimants.

Apostolic succession is the line of bishops stretching back to the apostles. All over the world, all Catholic bishops are part of a lineage that goes back to the time of the apostles, something that is impossible in Protestant denominations (most of which do not even claim to have bishops).

The role of apostolic succession in preserving true doctrine is illustrated in the Bible. To make sure that the apostles’ teachings would be passed down after the deaths of the apostles, Paul told Timothy, "[W]hat you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also" (2 Tim. 2:2). In this passage he refers to the first three generations of apostolic succession—his own generation, Timothy’s generation, and the generation Timothy will teach.

The Church Fathers, who were links in that chain of succession, regularly appealed to apostolic succession as a test for whether Catholics or heretics had correct doctrine. This was necessary because heretics simply put their own interpretations, even bizarre ones, on Scripture. Clearly, something other than Scripture had to be used as an ultimate test of doctrine in these cases.

Thus the early Church historian J. N. D. Kelly, a Protestant, writes, "[W]here in practice was [the] apostolic testimony or tradition to be found? . . . The most obvious answer was that the apostles had committed it orally to the Church, where it had been handed down from generation to generation. . . . Unlike the alleged secret tradition of the Gnostics, it was entirely public and open, having been entrusted by the apostles to their successors, and by these in turn to those who followed them, and was visible in the Church for all who cared to look for it" (Early Christian Doctrines, 37).

For the early Fathers, "the identity of the oral tradition with the original revelation is guaranteed by the unbroken succession of bishops in the great sees going back lineally to the apostles. . . . [A]n additional safeguard is supplied by the Holy Spirit, for the message committed was to the Church, and the Church is the home of the Spirit. Indeed, the Church’s bishops are . . . Spirit-endowed men who have been vouchsafed ‘an infallible charism of truth’" (ibid.).

Thus on the basis of experience the Fathers could be "profoundly convinced of the futility of arguing with heretics merely on the basis of Scripture. The skill and success with which they twisted its plain meaning made it impossible to reach any decisive conclusion in that field" (ibid., 41).

Pope Clement I

"Through countryside and city [the apostles] preached, and they appointed their earliest converts, testing them by the Spirit, to be the bishops and deacons of future believers. Nor was this a novelty, for bishops and deacons had been written about a long time earlier. . . . Our apostles knew through our Lord Jesus Christ that there would be strife for the office of bishop. For this reason, therefore, having received perfect foreknowledge, they appointed those who have already been mentioned and afterwards added the further provision that, if they should die, other approved men should succeed to their ministry" (Letter to the Corinthians 42:4–5, 44:1–3 [A.D. 80])

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 2

The Church Christ established came BEFORE the NT books were even written, let alone included in the canon of Scripture. Therefore, a church claiming to be BASED on the Bible CANNOT be the Church He founded, and is false.

To find the true Church, look for the one that has the successor of Peter (John 21:15-17 and Acts 1:20).

Answer 3

A Church is made of sticks and stones, and the Bible keeps a lot of people very, very, very, rich.... Donate the Churches to the poor, recycle the paper from all the Bibles and take all the jobs away from the Priests etc.... The money could then be used to help the starving and the war torn countries of Africa and afar..Mainstream Religion has more heads on the one body than any horror story from Stephen King or Hollywood could conjure up...

Answer 4

There is no true church based on the Bible alone.

The true Church is based on Jesus, and it has always faithfully preserved and handed down all the authentic teachings of Jesus and the apostles.

The Bible contains only some of them.

Jesus founded, authorized, and empowered the church. He never commanded anyone to write a single word of the Bible.

The Bible is a product of the church. The church is not dependant in any way on scripture, so your idea of a true church based on the Bible alone is patently false.

I challenge you to produce any language in scripture where God tells anyone to write either the old or new testament, or where either God or the Bible gives scripture the type of primary and supreme power and authority you claim.

Answer 5

I have to say no. Look at the bible and say the old testament is about love, and peace and forgivness. If i'm correct King david went to battle with the pharisees and killed 10,000, then circumsized all of them. Up until jesus if you were an adulterer well honey you got stoned. So no the true church isn't based on the bible it's based on god.

Answer 6

When Christ asked the Apostles whom people said that He was they gave various answers but Peter replied,`I believe that you are the Christ,the Son of the living God`
Jesus immediatley knew that God the Father revealed this to Peter through the Holy Spirit, and so He chose Peter to be the leader of the Apostles and gave him the authority to preach the Gospel and to forgive sins, effectively making Peter the very first head of His church on earth.
When Peter and the Apostles got older they appointed other believers as fellow Apostles and these too became Bishops and all down the line after the death of the first Apostles these would meet to elect a supreme head who eventually became known as Pope.
So the Catholic church is the one true successor to this Apostolic line and tradition, Catholic really means universal and this stands for the command to preach the Gospel to all nations,
the word comes from the Greek,, Katholos, Kath= according to.
Holos= the whole, and so the body of Christ cannot be divided, it must remain whole.

Answer 7

I am a Catholic. I know that my beliefs comply. I read the Bible every day.

Answer 8

Honestly being a Christian a LOT of years I don't know if there is a sourse of information for that question.