What is the true religion and the true church?

Question

I prefer the Roman Catholic because it is the only church founded by Christ while others are from someone who says they are the prophet or agels. am i right?

there is no bible without the church. if you are going to defend your own sect its no use of bible because bible only appear after the church has been built... it was approved by the pope st. damascus that st. jerome will write 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 is all the True beleivers in Jesus Christ, no matter what the sign in front of the church building says.
You are not right in saying that all the other denominations were founded by prophets or angels, you are confusing everybody with Mormonism. The protestant denominations were founded by Christ, and were the result of a determination of People of Faith to get away from a church which had become corrupeted by politics and materialism back into a more scriptural form of worship and fellowship. In many ways, the Catholic Church has repented form that earlier corruption and even though I am a protestant Christian, I know many excellent brothers and sisters in Christ within the Catholic church.

Answer 3

the romans are the ones who killed the Christ so why do you believe them.
they worship idols which God stricty prohibits.It is a blasphemy to compare God with a piece of wood, nor gold.. If you want to know the true church find that one which has pure teachings from the scripture, The church whose minister helps the poor people, give them what they need, doesn't collect money from anyone he sees along his way,uses everything he has to preach the gospel to the entire planet. He's just right there, He's preaching from east to west as prophecized by Isaias.He is walking in the old path, search google.

Answer 4

Nobody knows.

Buddhists, Christians, Confucianists, Hindus, Jains, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and Taoists all prove two triangles are congruent the same way, with allowances for differences in language and which direction they write. There is one true plane geometry, and its prophet was Euclid; it is the same all over the world. There isn't one religion or even any agreement on the nature of God.

You should know that. You should know how to spell "angel", too.

Answer 5

James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

It is common to hear people condeming religion when they truely are against is "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: 2Timothy 3:5.

Answer 6

All churches have truth, but some have more truth than others.

The truest church I have yet found is All Saints Margaret Street, London.

Answer 7

The Catholic Church, established 33AD.

Answer 8

The true religion is the Religio Romana.

Answer 9

Since when did Jesus found a church in Rome?

Lol.

It's all nonsense.

Please, try to get an education. Preferably a secular one.

Answer 10

seventh day adventist is the true religion because they're the only one who follows everything that the bible is saying.