Not all Catholics have attended Catechism class or have been properly given Catholic education. Many Catholics have very little understanding of the history, doctrines, and scriptural foundation of the church that makes them easy target for Protestant churches and non Catholic religions for recruitment in their churches founded by their Pastors and so called Evangelists preaching and teaching to build their churches and religion. Everything you need to know about the Catholic Church is presented here. The Catholic which is the One True Church that was founded by Jesus Christ himself not just by any man, so no one will boast, but that of the Lord our God himself in obedience to the will of the Father. It is in fact and in truth, the visible reality of the Kingdom of God promised by God himself that was to be put up or establish by the Messiah as it is written:
"In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.” - Daniel 2:44
Jesus made sure that we understand this because when he started his ministry and begun preaching, he first taught the main purpose of his coming into the flesh saying:
“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.- Mark 1:15
One will note that when the Lord said the "time is fulfilled" its the time that that has been awaited by the Jews, the promise coming of the kingdom of God which refers back to Daniel 2:44 when God of Heaven will set up the kingdom. Jesus is the Immanuel, God with Us, the God of heaven who came down and became man for the purpose of fulfilling the promise of the Father for he will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, ever. How do we know it is he who will set up the kingdom? Let's hear what Jesus said after he preached the gospel of the kingdom and was to travel to other cities he said,
"I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent." - Luke 4:43
What is that again? It is for the purpose of the kingdom of God that Jesus was sent by the Father. The Lord plainly said what was the purpose why he was sent by the Father. And true enough the Lord has organized his ministry, getting regular 12 people as his Apostles who he personally taught and trained to be his witnesses but also fellow workers to set up the kingdom. And when his work was about to be completed what did he tell his Apostles that he will build? He was preaching all the years of his earthly ministry of the Gospel of the Kingdom and what did he build? A Church! His Church which was earlier known then as The Way or The Church of God! Therefore the awaited Kingdom of God on earth was indeed set up in fulfillment of the scripture and it is the Church of God, the promised kingdom is the church.
Now the question is this, is the Catholic Church the true and original Church of God which is the promised kingdom that was set up in fulfillment of the scripture? Our answer is absolutely a big big YES! Thus the kingdom of God to which Jesus Christ is sitting as the king is the Catholic Church. The unbroken line of successors of the Apostle Peter is present in the Catholic Church thus fulfilling the scripture that the kingdom will not be left for another people and that itself will endure forever. It is the same kingdom, it is the same church established by Jesus Christ himself thus he fulfilled all that the father has told him to do when he uttered the words "consummatum est", it is finished.
Here we will look deeper into the unbroken line of history of the church starting from its founder Jesus Christ. In the same manner we have an unbroken line of witnesses to the truth, from the Apostles to the Church Fathers of the 1st century down to the unbroken line of bishops that have preserved the one true faith to the present and to the future until our King, our Lord comes again in glory.
HOW THE CHURCH WAS BUILT
WHICH IS THE TRUE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
PETER AND THE POPES AFTER HIM
LIFE OF THE APOSTLES AND THE CHURCH FATHERS
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