I will have to disagree. The Catholic Church as it is today is not what Jesus started. You have to remember that at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD the Oriental Orthodox churches split with the Western Churches.
The Western Churches then went on to split once again in 1054 into the current Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church.
So to say the Catholic Church is the one true church Jesus started is not quite correct, as many of the Coptic and Orthodox churches and even the Eastern Orthodox Church can lay equal claim as they were all once united under the same banner from the beginning. The Roman Catholic Church simply maintained the name yet adopted corruption and heresy over time which is what caused the others to split.
Here is a good resource that explains the history
https://www.suscopts.org/evangelism/frames/what_happend.html
The oriental and coptic churches if anything are the closest to representing the true teachings of Jesus as they were against the corruptions of the Catholic Church and stayed true to original apostolic teachings.
I will have to disagree. The Catholic Church as it is today is not what Jesus started. You have to remember that at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD the Eastern Orthodox churches split with the Western Churches.
The Western Churches then went on to split once again in 1054 into the current Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church.
So to say the Catholic Church is the one true church Jesus started is not quite correct, as many of the Coptic and Orthodox churches and even the Eastern Orthodox Church can lay equal claim as they were all once united under the same banner from the beginning. The Roman Catholic Church simply maintained the name yet adopted corruption and heresy over time which is what caused the others to split.
Here is a good resource that explains the history
https://www.suscopts.org/evangelism/frames/what_happend.html
The oriental and coptic churches if anything are the closest to representing the true teachings of Jesus as they were against the corruptions of the Catholic Church and stayed true to original apostolic teachings.
I will have to disagree. The Catholic Church as it is today is not what Jesus started. You have to remember that at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD the Eastern Orthodox churches split with the Western Churches.
The Western Churches then went on to split once again in 1054 into the current Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church.
So to say the Catholic Church is the one true church Jesus started is not quite correct, as many of the Coptic and Orthodox churches and even the Eastern Orthodox Church can lay equal claim as they were all once united under the same banner from the beginning. The Roman Catholic Church simply maintained the name yet adopted corruption and heresy over time which is what caused the others to split.