When is the Church’s Birthday?
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Steve Weidenkopf, in this excerpt from his School of Apologetics course on Church History, discusses the birthday of the Catholic Church.
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God bless!
That was so interesting.
So unfortunate that we cannot get the transcriptions of these informative Catholic Answers videos. I like to transcribe informative videos on the faith, in order to study them.
A lot of this information is on the Catholic Answers website and app.
I wish the courses where a little cheaper.
Pentecost, the birthday of Gods One True Apostolic Catholic Church that He established with His apostles in 33AD, before His Passion. Jesus is the chief cornerstone, Peter is who He built His Church on, as He appointed him as His first leader (Pope). Peter baptized 3000 people into Gods Catholic Church on Pentecost, the day Jesus ascended into Heaven and The Holy Spirit descended upon His apostles.
Pentecost 33 C.E. was the birth of the “CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION!” (The word “Catholic” was first used in 110 A.D. and is not found in the Bible) Early Christians didn’t celebrate birthdays because “they considered the celebration of anyone’s birth to be a pagan custom.” (The World Book Encyclopedia) And Acts 11:26 shows that by Jesus’ disciples by “divine providence were called Christians,” NOT Catholics. It was the God-given designation for followers of Christ so they would not be mistaken for a sect of Judaism.
Jesus reminded the apostles of what their main concern was to be at Acts 1:8 and it wasn’t the Eucharist. They were to be “WITNESSES of me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the most distant part of the earth.” Jesus’ early disciples were “WITNESSES” of the true God as Isaiah 43:10-12 tells us. That was the name he gave to his people. Now, they were to be Witnesses of both Almighty God AND Jesus Christ.
God’s always called His true worshippers WITNESSES, Not Catholics! Even Jesus is called “the Faithful WITNESS.” (Revelation 1:5) And Jesus said in the last days, that the good news had to be “preached in all the inhabited for a WITNESS to all the nations, and then the end will come.” (Matthew 24:14) What religion is doing that today?
If the fact that the word Catholics is not used in the bible then the fact that the word trinity is not used disproves the trinity.
Are you arguing for the Jehovah’s Witnesses? 😂 by the way, yes, members of the early Church were called Christians, but the term Catholic referred to the universal body/organization of the Church. The fact that it’s even used as early as 110 AD by St. Ignatius of Antioch, a literal student of the Apostle John, shows that it was already being commonly used in the early Church.
How do you know the first use of the term “Catholic” was in 110?
Why do you think that?
Catholics were called Christians first as we are the original Christian Church, the only one established by Jesus Christ. Celebrating Pentecost, the birthday of Gods One and only True Apostolic Catholic Church is not pagan.
Acts 1:8 is one of the duties the apostles had. They were to spread His One True Church Infallibly to the world, to administer His Sacraments, teach His Doctrine, Sacred Traditions and His Teachings, both oral and written, He set in His One True Church, to heal, cast out demons, etc.
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus, drawing near, spoke to them, saying: “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
Matthew 28:19 Therefore, go forth and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all that I have ever commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even to the consummation of the age.”
John 20:21 Therefore, he said to them again: “Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
John 20:22 When he had said this, he breathed on them. And he said to them: “Receive the Holy Spirit.
John 20:23 Those whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and those whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.”
Jesus Christ rebuked the Pharisees and Scribes for making their own version of His One True Apostolic Catholic Church and Doctrine, like all 44,000 other Christian Churches and other Faiths have done. Mt 23:1-39, Lk 11:37-54 He taught we’re to be His One True Church, remain in His Doctrine, receiving His Sacraments and Teachings, or we do not have Him.
2Jn 1:9, 2 Thess 3:6-16, Rom 16:17, Gal 1:6-9, 2 Cor 11:3-4, Eph 4:4-6, Jn 10:17, 17:20-26, 3:5, 6:51-59, 1 Cor 11:23-29, 2 Cor 5:18-20, Jn 20:21-23, Mt18:17-18 are a few of the pertinent verses
The Catholic Church still teaches Gods Doctrine, Teachings and Sacraments. Your interpretation and opinions do not negate Gods Truth! People forget God gave His authority and power to His apostles, the leaders of His Catholic (Universal) Church. He also taught we’re to follow our Church leaders, obey them and pray for them. Heb 13:7, 13:17-18 We are not supposed to follow, obey heretical men who make their own version of His Church and Doctrine.
@@angelinebui2562 The early church was the Christian church, not the Catholic Church.
The early Church taught Faith alone and scripture alone
No, no it didn't.
Jesus never taught that
@@Compulsive-Elk7103 really?
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and BELIEVES him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever BELIEVES in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Whoever BELIEVES in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Whoever BELIEVES in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Romans 10:17 - So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Hebrews 11:6 - And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must BELIEVE that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Belief is Faith.
You must be dim to think that because Paul clearly says the church is the bastion of truth in his letters and also that Christian’s need to follow what they were taught both through oral tradition and written.
What you wrote is not in the bible anywhere. It isn’t there because it is the believe of a heretic in that backwater denomination you belong to which has less than 100 years of tradition.
The early Church, established by Jesus Christ with His apostles taught we are only saved by loving God enough to live His Commandments, Church, Sacraments, Doctrine, Teaching, having faith, doing His work, receiving His grace, love and unfathomable mercy! He taught if we don’t remain in His Church and His Doctrine that He set in His One True Apostolic Catholic Church, We DO NOT HAVE HIM.
2 Jn1:9, Rom16:17, Heb13:9, Gal1:6-9, 2Thess3:6-16
If we don’t receive His Sacraments, we will never enter Heaven.
Jn 3:5, 6:51-59, 1 Cor 11:23-29, 2 Cor 5:18-20, Jn 20:21-23, Mt 18:17-18 are a few of them.
Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and Scribes for making their own version of His One True Church and Doctrine, just like all 44,000 other Christian Churches and other Faiths have done. Mt 23:1-39, Lk 11:37-54
@@southernlady1109 incorrect. Ephesians 2, Romans 10:9-10,
Today’s church is in error.
Augustine-
“…inasmuch as it is He that justifies the ungodly, to the man who believes in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is imputed for righteousness.”
Clement of Rome
All these, therefore, were highly honoured, and made great, not for their own sake, or for their own works, or for the righteousness which they wrought, but through the operation of His will. And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
John Chrysostom
The patriarch Abraham himself before receiving circumcision had been declared righteous on the score of faith alone: before circumcision, the text says, “Abraham believed God, and credit for it brought him to righteousness.”
“What is the “law of faith?” It is, being saved by grace. Here he shows God’s power, in that He has not only saved, but has even justified, and led them to boasting, and this too without needing works, but looking for faith only.”
Ignatius:
"His cross, and his death, and his resurrection, and the faith which is through him, are my unpolluted muniments; and in these, through your prayers, I am willing to be justified (Epistle to Philadelphians). Note: "muniments" are title deeds, documents giving evidence of legal ownership of something.
Polycarp:
"I know that through grace you are saved, not of works, but by the will of God, through Jesus Christ (Epistle of Philippians).
Justin Martyr:
"No longer by the blood of goats and of sheep, or by the ashes of a heifer...are sins purged, but by faith, through the blood of Christ and his death, who died on this very account (Dialogue with Trypho). "God gave his own Son the ransom for us...for what, save his righteousness, could cover our sins. In whom was it possible that we, transgressors and ungodly as we were, could be justified, save in the Son of God alone? ...O unexpected benefit, that the transgression of many should be hidden in one righteous Person and that the righteousness of One should justify many transgressors" (Letter to Diognetus).