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I had an online discussion with a Roman Catholic and it’s discouraging —How would you respond to what he is saying?
“Jesus never instituted personal salvation.
Jesus gave the mission of sharing the gift of salvation with the apostles and disciples until his return.
The Church is the Body of Christ. Apart from the Church there is no access to Christ.
There is no access to salvation apart from the Body of Christ.
The whole idea that salvation is just a direct spiritual moment between me and Jesus, without anybody else, is the furthest thing from Biblical wisdom as you can get.
God NEVER worked in the world apart from a community that He called to be His coworkers. So to create a theology of salvation that is hyper-individualistic and private is non-Biblical.
If you get stuck on just seeing an institution in the Church then this won't ever make sense.
But if you look deeper and see the community, the Body of Christ, then you will see the Church.”
“Jesus never instituted personal salvation.
Jesus gave the mission of sharing the gift of salvation with the apostles and disciples until his return.
The Church is the Body of Christ. Apart from the Church there is no access to Christ.
There is no access to salvation apart from the Body of Christ.
The whole idea that salvation is just a direct spiritual moment between me and Jesus, without anybody else, is the furthest thing from Biblical wisdom as you can get.
God NEVER worked in the world apart from a community that He called to be His coworkers. So to create a theology of salvation that is hyper-individualistic and private is non-Biblical.
If you get stuck on just seeing an institution in the Church then this won't ever make sense.
But if you look deeper and see the community, the Body of Christ, then you will see the Church.”