Subject: When did the catholic church go wrong? |
Bible Note: Well I'm not strongly grounded in the history, or unfolding of these things, just shooting from the hip. I believe what happened at niciae is very much akin to what happened when Israel asked for a king to be over her like the other nations(1 Samuel 8:19,20). Israel was experiencing much distress at the time, but she had a covenant relationship with GOD to live and overcome through. This she rejected in order to deal with her problems as other nations(unbelief, arm of flesh). What this truly was GOD revealed in 1 Samuel 8:7. This is exactly what I believe those believers embracing Constintine and the covering of the Roman Empire did at Niciea. ED: Any thoughts about the compromises you felt entered the church in 300 AD era? The church is by defination those who live in a real moment to moment communion with GOD as their Father through the attonement of our Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing added, nothing taken away. You cannot join the church, you MUST be born into it. So the straight foward ansewer to that question is that the believers embracing the protection and sanction of the Roman Empire left the church, and began the first expression of Babylon sinse the attonement of Christ. As such these would be the members of the spirit wishing to destroy the faith of Jesus Christ in the lives of men. ED: Had the compromises the early non-believers brought become so ingrained that they were no longer an issue? It's my personal belief that the adversary had succeeded in taking the hearts of many from their first love. By this I mean that many were moved by stress and pressures from a complete intrustment of themselves to Christ in love, into trying of themselves, and apart from the faith of GOD to deal with the many things confronting the early church. These things are a testimony to us, today. |