[SUP]So Dude.... don't be sad for me, or worry to much for my soul, with you bearing false witness against others, it is your own soul you should be concerned about.[/SUP]
It's called integrity.
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No offense but you clearly have NOT read the bible to any great extent. If you had you would know that it says, at least ten times, that the Word of God is immutable. That's not Jimmy Swagger speaking, those are the inspired words of the authors of the bible.
Yet Catholic dogma changes like the wind at the whim of the current reining Pope (or when geopolitical pressures force a Vatican Counsel).
Where are you going to put your faith? In the inspired Word of God or the fickle haplessnes of the papacy, which acts more like a political agent of change rather than a hub for for true spirituality?
"See Eph. 4:5"...So you are saying Paul was Catholic?
Paul uses the word "one" 6 times. Christ's Church also teaches just one set of doctrines, which must be the same as those taught by the apostles (Jude 3). This is the unity of belief to which Scripture calls us (Phil. 1:27, 2:2).
Although some Catholics dissent from officially-taught doctrines, the Church’s official teachers—the pope and the bishops united with him—have never changed any doctrine. Over the centuries, as doctrines are examined more fully, the Church comes to understand them more deeply (John 16:12–13), but it never understands them to mean the opposite of what they once meant.
Rom. 12:5, 1 Cor. 10:17, 12:13 CCC 813–822
"ONE" is a divine attribute, characteristic, or quality that describes the Church, but there are 3 more. Find out here: Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth | Catholic Answers
I would say Paul was Catholic as the term means "universal", but that is putting the cart before the horse. You use the term to mean the big fat denomination with her headquarters in the Vatican, so it's important to get the terms right. Whether Paul knew his letter to the Ephesians would one day be binding on the whole Church is another matter, but the Pauline Corpus was generally accepted by 130, yet quotations arerarely introduced as scriptural. They were generally accepted by 250 AD. The point is, Paul did not put his letters into the Bible. That process ended in 397 AD.
"Catholic" comes from the Greek word Katholikos, which was later Latinized into Catholicus. It means 'Universal', which in itself means, 'of or relating to, or affecting the entire world and ALL peoples therein'. It means, ALL encompassing, comprehensibly broad, general, and containing ALL that is necessary. In summation, it means ALL people in ALL places,having ALL that is necessary, and for ALL time.
Matthew 28:19-20, "Go, therefore and make disciples of ALL nations...teaching them to observe ALL that I have commanded you; And behold, I am with you ALL days, even unto the consummation of the world."
That is a statement of Universality, Katholicos,Catholicus, Catholic.
Romans1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed (KATanggeletai) in all the world. (en HOLO to kosmo)
Thus the word KATAHOLOS or Catholic in English originated from Scriptures.
Acts 9:31 "So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied."
There the words "church throughout all" is translated from the Greek words "Ecclesia kata holis" But it was after Ignatius that the term Catholic Church became used more and more to designate the true church.
"Where the Bishop appears, there let the people be, just as where JesusChrist is, there is the Catholic Church."
St.Ignatius of Antioch's letter to the Smyrneans, paragraph 8, of 106A.D
Undoubtedly the word was in use before the time of this writing.
Other written records of the term "CATHOLIC" describing a character of the Christian Church:
Martyrdom of St. Polycarp 155AD;
Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis 202AD;
Cyprian, Unity of the Catholic Church 251AD;
Cyprian, Letter to Florentius, 254AD
"Christian is my name, and Catholic my surname. The one designates me, while the other makes me specific. Thus am I attested and set apart... When we are called Catholics it is by this appellation that our people are kept apart from any heretical name."
Saint Pacian of Barcelona, Letter to Sympronian, 375 A.D.
Based on the above data, I must conclude that Paul was Catholic with a universal gospel message. The terms are interchangeable. They always have been.
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