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Not the Church Christ Founded
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that it is the one church Christ founded on Peter, continuous from the apostles. Theologica teaches otherwise. Christ's church, the saved and baptized ecclesia gathered in local churches, has always existed, usually smaller than the institution and often persecuted by it (the perpetuity of the church).
“And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”MATTHEW 16:18 · KJV
The Catholic Church was not founded on a single day. It took shape over centuries as churches gave up the New Testament pattern of church government, came under a hierarchy of bishops, and joined themselves to the Roman state.
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