How many Anti-Catholic "Christians" realize that the Church predates the NT?

Question

nacsez, if the Christianity does not predate the New Testament, who was Paul writing to?

ALL thumbs down were given by a participant, not by me. I appreciate the effort and thoughts of everyone regardless of how much we agree or disagree

Answer 1

Act 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with] our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Act 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Act 7:40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for [as for] this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

The ekklesia is a remnant of the same group of people now. How many know that?

Answer 2

the Church of Christ is the oldest He was and is the Temple . The followers or belivers were called Christians at Antiock not catholics or bapt or any thing else.The truth of the matter is that the belivers are the temple or church not a building . Funny how there are 7 churches mentioned in the book and none called what they are today . There was house churches also , we are told not to neglect the gathering to gether as bro's. but no specific church is mentioned or any group other than belivers..

Answer 3

You are correct.

The Church born on Pentecost did not "get" the New Testament documents until 30 to 70 years later.

This Church lived by Holy Tradition not Holy Scripture as noted later in the New Testament:

Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours. (2 Thessalonians 2:15)

We instruct you, brothers, in the name of (our) Lord Jesus Christ,to shun any brother who conducts himself in a disorderly way and not according to the tradition they received from us. (2 Thessalonians 3:6)

I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions, just as I handed them on to you. (1 Corinthians 11:2)


I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. (John 16:12-13)

This Church was and is the Church of the Living Word not the Church of the Book.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

David, David, David. . .I am SO disappointed in you.

Don't you know that us godless heathern Catholics are actually the descendants of pagan savages? That's why we eat a lot of beans on those meatless Fridays so we can fart in crowded elevators. We also force our aged grandmothers to work in massage parlors, and we take more than one free sample of Rootie-Tootie Fruitie Loopies Cereal at the grocery store.

And those are some of our *nicer* qualities.

Answer 5

The Bible was finalized by the Roman Catholic Church under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit until the 4th Century. This is because Jesus came first to establish his Kingdom-The Roman Catholic Church on St. Peter, the first pope.

Answer 6

Thank you. Just a matter of reading a history book to know this.

Answer 7

You're wrong.

The church is Biblically the body of believers physically. The catholic cult (which isn't Christian) didn't exist before Constantine created it as a pagan cult.

Answer 8

If you mean the Catholic Church predates the actual texts of the NT, then you are correct.

If you mean it predates the events, that is not correct.


--Sorry, it predates all events of the NT except the life of Jesus. You are correct in that sense.

Answer 9

I have no idea what anti-Catholics do or do not realize. I do know that most Roman Catholics I have talked with are ignorant or blind to their own church history.

Answer 10

Of course it does, everyone knows that.