05/26/2024
There is a lot of confusion surrounding what actually is “The Church”, largely because there are many church-based organizations which are inappropriately claiming themselves to be the one true Church. One of the biggest examples of this type of confusion is found in the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), because the RCC erroneously claims to be the one true church. They are incorrect in that claim. Like many other denominations derived from a Christian-based belief system, the RCC is literally a “religious organization” constructed by the hands and minds of human beings. The same goes with Protestantism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or any other organized form of Christian-based orthopraxy that exists today. They are all expressions of how people choose to religiously organize the ways in which they practice their religion. But none of them—I repeat, none of them are exclusively “The Church”. There is a difference between organized religions constructed by people, and the collection of believers who are assembled by the working of God Himself. The Church is defined and constructed by God alone. The Church is not something that you get to join on a whim at your leisure. Sure, you can request for God to allow you to join The Church, but the only way you can actually become a part of The Church, is if God Himself allows you, transforms you, and transports you into His Church. There are no backdoors; there is only one Way to enter into the membership of God’s Church, and it is not through joining a man-made religious organization. The RCC is not the one true church, because they do not have the authority to define what belongs to God—God alone defines and builds The Church as He sees fit. Moreover, in these various organized religions such as the RCC, there are many people who are in fact a part of God’s actual Church, yet in the same breath, there are also many people in those organized religions who are NOT a part of God’s actual Church. Though the wheat and the tares grow together, they are not the same. And just because someone attends church or is a member of an organized religion, that does not mean that they are actually a member of The Church.
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Acts 17:24-25 | 1 Corinthians 6:19 | Matthew 13:30