[SUP] It's funny, us Catholics are wrongly accused of deleting the 2nd Commandment while the 8th Commandment, Thou shalt not bear false witness, doesn't seem to exist with anti-Catholics. It's also remarkable that there are no anti-Protestant webs, videos, books by Catholics.
It's called integrity.
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You miss the point. Jimmy Swaggart can quote scripture, and maybe get his interpretations right most of the time, but he is far removed from the language and culture that was very close to the Apostles, compared with Augustine, who was not doctrinally divorced from the early church as is Jimmy Swaggart.
It is impossible for the Church to change dogmas or doctrines. If you want to call starving children a geopolitical pressure, you go right ahead. How about the geopolitical pressure of the evils of birth control and abortion? Isn't that the real root of anti-Catholic prejudice?
Please post something from a reliable source the pope has formally taught that would support your assertions. in context. Pontification is easy, research is hard.
4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.8
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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