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Rome's tactics.

So we are back to that. Your circular reasoning. And that is the blind spot. You cannot hear the word "church" without identifying it automatically with the RCC no matter how many times and ways it is pointed out that there is no verification, no validation, no witness to that except that of the RCC itself.
You hear church and think of an invisible church.

Mt 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.
 
NT was written by Catholics.
It was written by our invisible head Christ who put his words in the mouth of His prophets that he sends as messenger called apostles .Not from the apostles, dying mankind.
 
It was written by our invisible head Christ who put his words in the mouth of His prophets that he sends as messenger called apostles .Not from the apostles, dying mankind.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Paul, James, etc. -- first Catholics
 
You hear church and think of an invisible church.

Mt 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.

Yes born again believers hold out the gospel of light as reflection of the true light the invisible head the Holy Father He loving commands us to call no man on earth Holy Father, Holy See, Prince of the apostles. . . etc
 
a mountain is physical
Yes, mountains are used in parables to represent kingdoms.

Isaiah 13:4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
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Ezekiel 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all

Satan the god of this world offered to Jesus the son of man all the kingdoms of this world and the glory of them.

Why glory in dirt and call it Fatima Holy ground.? Samples to venerate are for sale.
 
Do you ever get the impression that for some folk the whole of the Christian faith is all in their head?

I would offer we must be careful how we hear who we say we do. The father of lies is is quick to snatch the seed

Many confuse the use of the word faith and how it is used as a law.of faith (Romans 3:27)

I would think many think the powerful faith of Christ's labor of love (eternal God not seen) as a law of faith. They think it comes from observing the temporal things seen as if they were the eternal . Jesus said the Kingdom of His Father does not come by looking at the dying temporal historical, there must be a mix

Many do not use what I would call the valuable 20/20 prescription needed to rightly divide the parables. Which without parables Christ spoke not, hiding the spiritual unseen understanding. . . the mysteries of the gospel hid from natural unconverted mankind . . Therefore some look to the temporal historical things seen and attribute it as the power of God faithfulness . not comparing the eternal to the temporal. No mix, no gospel rest. Not seeking the understanding of faith (the unseen spiritual things). .

It is not a salvation issue. Nothing can destroy the simplicity of the gospel God working saving dying mankind , But it can enrich how we hear or say we do.

2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

The prescription 20/20 needed to cure the lies the father of lies who can blind minds, spoken previously in the beginning of the chapter of below

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Image = light . God is light and not that he can only created it temporally . 20/20 prescription with sun guard giving us sight curing the blindness

In that way Christ is the storeroom of His powerful faith. He gives us little calling us "you of little faith" .Just enough that works in us empowering us to please him
 
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