MorphRC wrote:I dont mind if they do, but personally Latin is better. It doesnt affect the doctrines or dogmas, which is what matters more.
Also there churches [ekkelisa - community, assembly] not Church, Institution, keep the text in CONTEXT. There were 7 churches, communities not 7 Churches, different denominations.
Now I think you are getting it. There is only one ekklesia called by God not the RCC, which is merely one denomination filled with discord over the decisions of RCC councils and decisions.
Eph 4:3-8
4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. 8 Therefore it says,
"When He ascended on high,
He led captive a host of captives,
And He gave gifts to men."
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The RCC did not even exist as an organized hierarchy until the late 4th century, when Constantine established the Patriarchies of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and Jerusalem. The Bishop of Rome was the ecclesiastical head of the Western Church and not the final authority of the Christian world and Rome has never been the ecclesiastical head of Christianity.
Latin is better? It is better to conduct mass in a dead language that few people understand instead of in the common tongue where the congregation can comprehend and praise God with understanding? Interesting concept since the most (if not all) of the NT was written in Greek not Latin. Jerome was the man who translated the Vulgate (a Latin translation of the Greek Septuagint, which was a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures).
As to RCC dogma, much of it distorts, violates, and voids God’s revealed truth. Have you studied what Jesus and Paul taught about the “tradition of men”?
Mark 7:8
8 "Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men."
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Col 2:8-15
8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. 9 For in Him all the fulness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority; 11 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; 12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And when you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.
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