GodsGrace
CF Ambassador
JayboI am done discussing this with you. You have your mind set and aren't willing to pay attention to sound reasoning.
1) You deliberately fail to understand the difference between "catholic" and "Catholic". One is an adjective, the other is the name of a denomination.
2) The reason that all Protestants aren't Lutherans is that Lutheranism is, like Catholicism, a denomination. (Neither Catholicism nor Lutheranism are mentioned in Scripture.)
3) In Jesus' high priestly prayer, he prays, "And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one." (John 17:11) All Catholics should read this instead of claiming that Catholics are the one true church; it applies to all those who believe in Christ.
John 17:6-13, " “I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word. Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you, because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you. Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them. I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves."
You wrote, "Jesus founded ONE Church, not multiple sects with competing and contradictory teachings." I find this tragically amusing, as it is the Catholic church that claims to be the one true church. There is no mention of the Catholic church in Scripture!!! (How many times must I say this?)
Finally, you're saying that it is the Catholic Church which actually unites Protestantism is the most bizarre thing I have read in a long time.
Since your mind is closed to all but Catholic dogma, I am done trying to reason with you.
1. You're mind is also set !
2. catholic means universal.....the universal church...the ONLY church.
Catholic means the universal church....the ONLY church. I don't know why you're making this distinction and won't give up trying to say they have two different meanings.
3. John 17 --- Jesus is addressing the Apostles. However, other verses show that Jesus meant for all the members of the Kingdom of God on earth were meant to be of the same mind.
Philippians 2:1-4,
1 Corinthians 1:10,
Romans 15:6