Part 2: Literally Catholic

sarahdva

Oct 3

Basically, Christians Believe?

Part 2: Literally Catholic

The word catholic means universal or general¹ ². It comes from the Greek word katholikos, which means "regarding the whole"¹ ². The word catholic is used to describe the teaching and the faith of the Church that is universally united in its worship and doctrine³. The word catholic also implies that there are no divisions or branches within the Church ³.
More like what we are not. If we're honest that is. We are not unified anymore. And I'm not sure of the last time we were? I think Anti-denominational was an attempt at it, however, they became a everything goes. (In my opinion. Address hate mail to Santa at the north pole. My people will be in touch.) Or rather everyone is welcome.
"What?" you say, "Isn't everyone welcome in God's house?"
No. Not if they're un-repentant, poisonous snakes looking to sow seeds of discord and non-biblical doctrine within the church.

1Corinthians 5:1-8
"It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father's wife. ²And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? ³For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. ⁴So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, ⁵hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,^[^a^][^b^] so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
⁶Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? ⁷Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. ⁸Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth

So I'm not picking on just the Never-denominated: To the broken branched methodist and Lutherans; is not modern sexual 'orientation' much the same type of sin and widely accepted social practice we denounced in Pauls' day? Haven't we, the church, already addressed all the things that are currently dividing us today? Were not the Corinthians also proud?
Brothers and Sisters in Christ. What do you believe? Are we Consistent? Can we (or you) point someone new to who you are as Christ defines it and why? Again I ask, why do we differ from church to church if we all have the same bible? And again I ask, Why is there any discussion at all? If the bible, God's eternal word, is our guide? Why do we, the created, assume to "interpret" God Almighty's clear, unchanging, true words? This should Never be compromised. Yet that's exactly what "interpretation" of the Bible (God's Word) has gotten us. Compromising on a regular basis with the World that we are in, yet supposed to be set apart from. A peculiar people is what we are to be. Different. Transformed and new. Get rid of the yeast.