Unjabbed turned away from church...
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This statement is in direct contradiction to what the Bible says about God and about the Church (and spoken like an anti-Christian false religion Cabal follower of pantheistic spirituality).
(Hebrews 10: 24-25) And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
(Eph. 5:25) Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
(Eph. 2:19-22) So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
(Eph. 5:29-30) For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.
The Church is the bride of Christ and awaits the marriage supper:
(Rev. 19:7-8) Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.”
Thank you for feeding us with the Word. Those are excellent verses indeed. And the early Catholics handed us a magnificent canon of scripture.
But they don't prove your stated point. The Church is a spiritual structure built by God. It can't be defined physically or even socially. It excludes many false Catholics and includes many sincere strangers.
I'm currently asking God to protect us. The Holy Father in Rome doesn't seem inclined to say or do anything to help in our time of trouble. I just hope our beautiful Sistine Chapel survives the Communist/Islamist revolution. Papa Bergoglio has continually fanned the flames by pandering to malicious, unstable pseudo-Christians who never knew Jesus. I genuinely wonder how God will judge that self-absorbed, irreverent, attention-crazed transient.
The church universal is a spiritual structure; the local church (ekklesia - called out assembly) is a physical assembly of like-minded believers that meet regularly to worship, sing psalms, teach, give and encourage one another. The church was established in Acts 2 and continues through today.