Salus Maior wrote:Prima Scriptura wrote:
Most Protestants have a different understanding of Matthew 16:18. We don’t believe he founded a physical Church. I embrace the belief that the Church are the saints, people in heaven and believers on Earth. Not a institutional organization.
This article explains the viewpoint I subscribe to https://www.gotquestions.org/upon-this-rock.html
That'd be inconvenient for Protestants if He did, which He did do, considering that's what exists after He says that in the book of Acts.
You believe that because you’re a Catholic, and that is understandable. However, as a Protestant, I don’t believe he did. We just got done reading through ACTS in Bible study and I must say that I have a new in deep and appreciation for apostle Paul. I hold to the belief that they’re were a community of believers. Also, I think it would be extremely far-fetched to believe that the earliest of Christians had liturgies similar to that TLM