Quote:
Originally Posted by Praxeas
That sounds kind of odd. It takes a Bishop in order for the church to be in some place? I can see it's in use, that's assuming this article was genuine and not spurious and contained no interpolations. Im wondering though was it a "universal" (no pun) term and was it used here as a name? And was this doctrine that where the Bishop was there was the Catholic Church. That sounds very Roman Catholic. I wonder why he did not say where A Bishop was, unless by Bishop he meant Jesus. We find a lot of peculiar statements like that in these articles of antiquity
|
This is where you're wrong. The True Church is the believers, the same believers that were in the Reformations.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Praxeas
It is true the corruption sparked Luther's reformation, but there were others before Luther that disagreed with Rome for one reason or another. The climate they were in at the time was nothing like it was in Luther's day, making it far easier to do what they did. BTW Luther still believed in baptismal regeneration and infant baptism.
|
That may be true, but he still believe that God was Triune.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Praxeas
What I find interesting is that there was no true Church in doctrine until the reformation. It's claimed by Trinitarians though that the church was built on the rock and never fell and the proof of this is the doctrine of the Trinity, as though that is the only doctrine that is necessary, yet we are handed with the reformation supposedly restoring back the doctrines the Roman Catholic church corrupted... something I just never understood
|
Now, its your turn to show me where the ONeness church was during this same period of time.