Midgie wrote:
Oh, it matters, Garee! I bet all those watching Noah building the Ark didn't think it mattered, either, till the floods came and took them all away. The Catholic Church IS the Ark being steered to safety by the Pope guided by the Power of the Holy Spirit. There is only ONE Body, so I hope you join the Church and be part of the Body!

What Does Church Mean?

God bless you


  

The Catholic church that comparest hems by and to themselves and not the word of God is its own captain of salvation. Its why they highly venerate each other instead of God who performs the work in new creatures called Christians.They perfom that just as the Pharisees with Sadducee's, two of the many sects that were here during the first century reformation ,who also like the catholics found themselves under a "law of the fathers" (efc's) They also kicked against the pricks of sola scriptura.

Their is one body made up of many denominations. . Our heavenly Father is typified as Abraham, the father of many nations, which we call denominations or sects.


The word church, denotes the wife or bride of Christ.  It is made up of many lively stones to include our blessed sister in the Lord, Mary that altogether as one body forms the one spiritual house of God .

If God wanted for people to think the church is formed as one nation (Catholic) and was not divisible. He would of simply left Abraham's name, Abram, the father of one nation. And the real presence of God Spirit would be called the bosom of Abram, and not the bosom Abraham. Which again typifies the Holy Father of many, not one.