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And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to them:"Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand." - Matthew 12:25


There are an estimated 37,000 Protestant denominations

Ofcourse there will be myriad of subchurches in the Protestant Church. Why? Because intially they Protested against the Catholic (universal) Church, then they VERY quickly Protested amongst themselves and is going on continually, until this very day, and likely it will not stop, no where is the history of Christianity or even religion for that matter has this much division been seen. Why is this happening? The answer lies on the book that they all (or almost all) agree on- the Bible. More specifically the common unBiblical Protestant doctrine concerning the Bible- sola scripture. Protestantism puts the Bible alone on a pedastool, and make it their "pillar and foudation of truth", and base their individual sect's individual interpretation or amendments on the Bible (theoretically). Sadly, the Bible does not speak of creating a Church based on the Bible, because the leader of the Church were writing the Bible. The Bible says "do not go beyond what is written" (1 Corinthians 4:6) which does not mean believe what is written and ONLY what is written since Jesus commanded the Apostles to preach by word of mouth, and furthermore at the time the scripture was the Old Testament. More accurately if Protestants want to accept their interepretation of that verse they must look at 1 Timothy 3:15 which calls the "house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth." Then they must look at the story of Jesus exorcizing demons and then the people believing Jesus of being demonic in nature and Jesus tells them "(a) house divided against itself shall not stand." Then they must examine Protestantism as a whole, according to Jesus can Protestantism stand?

Now going back to 1 Timothy 3:15, what does the Bible say holds the Church up? Revelations 21:14 says " The wall of the city had twelve foundations as its foundation, on which were inscribed the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb." The City is the Church, to prove that further Revelation 21:2 calls the city the New Jerusalem, the Bride of Christ"I also saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." Furthermore this city is not invisible because Jesus said "You are the light of the world, a city seated on mountain cannot be hid" (Matthew 5:14), which He quoted from Isaiah 2:2: "And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it." Christ Himself calls Himself "the Light of the World", just as Christ passed down many of His titles to the Church.

To further prove that division is untolerable in the bible it is written in Jude verse 11: "Woe to them! They followed the way of Cain, abandoned themselves to Balaam's error for the sake of gain, and perished in the rebellion of Korah." The 'rebellion of Korah' was a schism from the Congregation of YHWH in the Old Testament, the schism was authored by the Levite priest named Korah who took along with him 250 people of the tribe of Israel. His challenged the God given authority of Moses and Aaron (Numbers 16). His complaint to Moses was "Enough from you! The whole community, all of them, are holy; YHWH is in their midst. Why then should you set yourselves over YHWH's congregation?" Infact both in the New and Old Testament it is said that all God's people is a ' priesthood.' Exodus 19:6 God says: "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation. That is what you must tell the Israelites." This is once again repeat to the Body of Christ by Sts. Peter and Paul. "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people" (1Peter 2:9) Both Martin Luther the fallen Catholic Priest and Korah the fallen Jewish Levite Priest wanted to do away with sacrifical priesthood and start their own 'denomination- Martin Luther and Korah misinterpreted the same element of scripture when doing away with the priesthood. By-the-way Luther also justified his heresy by " Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all," (Colassian 3:11) and Galatians 3:28. All the say God is not partial in respects to race, social-economics, and gender, but even if one wanted to include priests and nonpriests it can be said it is true, God does not give special favor to priests, priests are just a neccessity of the Body of Christ, salvation does not depend on being a ministeral priest. Continuing, the Bible tells us the punishment of Korah and his followers in schism and heresy was, "And fire from YHWH came forth which consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense." Because this was going to happen it says that "they withdrew from the space around the Dwelling (of Korah, Dathan and Abiram)." Similarly, St Paul told Titus in Titus 3:10: "After a first and second warning, break off contact with a heretic, realizing that such a person is perverted and sinful and stands self-condemned."

What is the Authority of All Christians? It is the Church whom Christ gave power. Christ said, "And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican." These people who are unrepentant sinners, which can include heresy, have been in effect judged by the Church and cut off (anathema). Christ forbade people from judging other unless they look first at themselves--the Church is perfect (if read as the love between Christ and the Church) as Solomon calls "without blemish." Furthermore Isaiah 54:17 tell us thats the Church: "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, saith YHWH." St Paul, himself, in the New Testament issues anathemas to bad Christians such as, "To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Corinthians 5:5) and then again in 1Timothy 1:20, "Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme." Again, (1 Corinthians 16:22) "If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha." Anathema means cutoff or "accursed" and maranatha means come o' Lord. Yes, as in the Old Testament people can still be curse by the people of the Lord, as Moses cursed Ham, or YHWH declared people who broke His commandments to be anathema.

But in all fairness it must said that these schismatics/heretics were formal , as are the heretics mentioned in the New Testament (as far as my knowledge). While most modern day Protestants are material heretics, meaning those who inherited their heresy and did not formally break away from the Catholic Church.

What is to be learned from Numbers 16 and Jude 1:11? It is that despite all members beng a "royal priesthood" their ARE orders of Priests, as with Aaron and his sons, and St. Peter and the Apostles and their successors by the imposition of hands. Whereas Moses and his successors until the Pharisees at the Time of Jesus where the legitamate authority of the People of God and being called by Christ the "chair of Moses,"(Matt. 23:2) from Christ declaring St. Peter a rock and shepherd, and on the establishment of the Church, so sits the Peter in the "Chair of Peter" with his successors being the Popes, sitting forever until the End of Time, shepherding and guiding the Lord's flock.

"And he gave some as apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the extent of the full stature of Christ, so that we may no longer be infants, tossed by waves and swept along by every wind of teaching arising from human trickery, from their cunning in the interests of deceitful scheming. Rather, living the truth in love, we should grow in every way into him who is the head, Christ...." - Ephesians 4:11-15

Finally it must be remembered what St Jude's Epistle says:

"These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit." -Jude1:19

 

 

 
 
   
           
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