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Reader Post | By A Fellow Patriot
RE: Q Playbook
“Conclusion from all it appears that Religion in any form was an oppression tool for humanity, to use indoctrination to turn peoples and cultures against each other.”
Why the Church?
Francis J. Ripley • 2/1/1993
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/why-the-church
Why belong to a church? The simple answer is because God has said you must. He became man and personally established an organized, visible Church to teach, rule, and make us holy with his authority. He did this because he was the way, the truth, and the life.
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence or two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the Church; and if he refuses to listen even to the Church, let him be to you as a Gentile and tax collector. Truly, I say to you, Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Matt. 18:15-18). Therefore the Church is a body that can be appealed to and has the duty to cut off from membership those who are obstinately disobedient.
Christ called his apostles as his own special companions, to be always with him. He concentrated on their formation and conferred special powers on them to teach, rule, and make people holy. By making Peter head of the apostles he gave him central authority in the Church: “Feed my lambs, feed my sheep, feed my sheep” (John 21:15-17). He gave to Peter individually the authority he had given to the apostles as a body: “Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven” (Matt. 16:19).
In the Acts of the Apostles we find the Church as a clear-cut organization. It has officials, such as Matthias and Timothy, who were consecrated by the laying-on of hands–deacons, priests, and bishops. “If a man cannot rule his own household, how is he to rule the Church of God?” (1 Tim. 3:5). When the apostles met in council in Jerusalem (Acts 15), the Church was already a fully-constituted society intent on converting the world. It had disciplinary rules, officials, ceremonies, sacraments, and official teaching.
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That same Church must be in the world today because Christ said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commended you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age” (Matt. 28:18-20).
The Catholic Church alone of Christian bodies today corresponds exactly to the religion established by Jesus Christ. We can outline the argument this way:
- The Catholic Church was founded by Christ personally.
- The Catholic Church has existed continuously, without essential change, since the time of Christ.
- The Catholic Church is universal, in accordance with Christ’s command to go to all the world and teach all the nations.
- The Catholic Church demands that all its members admit the same doctrine.
- The Catholic Church exercises divine authority over its subjects, since Christ said that if a man would not hear the Church he would be as the heathen.
From A Fellow Patriot
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