Tim writes: "The true church does still exist but it is not about a governing body. It is about the body of christ, believers of the Gospel, coming together and worshiping him."
Tim,
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How do you presume to know what the true Church is? Christ said that it would be established by the Apostles themselves, and would endure until His return, hence it cannot be the Protestant sects that came into existence 1,600 years after the first Pentecost in Jerusalem. (e.g., "Whatsover ye shall bind on earth shall be bound, etc.") The true Church would, by definition from scripture itself, have to be a Church established by the Apostles--ergo, either the Orthodox or Roman Catholic Churches (of Apostolic succession.) Furthermore, if you insist on using only scripture to invent your concept of the Church--like Martin Luther and John Calvin-- how do you explain Christ's very "hard" saying to His Apostle's that "unless a man (literally) eats my Body and drinks my Blood there is no life in him?" That one saying alone invalidates all of the Protestant non-eucharistic "churches" invented "sola scriptura" during the Reformation. And where are the miracle working saints in these invented "churches?" Did not Christ say that the true Christians after Him would work miracles and accomplish "greater works than these?" The Protestants and "Pentecostal" Protestants have selectively overlooked all of the scriptures that invalidate their own distorted inventions of "church" organizations. They must acquire the humility to repent of these errors and be properly educated and baptized into the "one holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church," the Orthodox Church.