Where does the Bible say...

[Marymog]

Hi Mary,

How the Christian world came to observe Sunday is simple matter of history. The Roman Church sought to distance itself from Jews, and to encourage the conversion of Pagans (who had been worshipping on Sunday for a long time….this is how it became known as the “sun day”). So it adopted the day. Alexandria joined the city of Rome in this plan. And after Rome gained the ascendancy over other churches, its tradition became general.

First, we agree that our Savior was resurrected on the first day of the week. And we agree that this tremendous event ought to be commemorated. When we attend a baptism we are attending a ritual that reminds us of the resurrection of the Lord.

But when the Bible speaks about the first day of the week, it never mentions any sanctity ever being conferred on that day.

We find that the disciples once met on the first day of the week “for fear of the Jews.” John 20:19. We find that Paul once preached all Sabbath long, then through Saturday evening, with the intent of traveling on what we call Sunday morning. Ac 20.

Some, reading this passage, are confused because they do not understand that the Jewish day begins at sunset. So when they read that it was dark, on the “first day of the week”, they are thinking Sunday night. But Jews understood “Saturday night.”

We find that men in the New Testament times were paid daily. It was a good question to converted ex-pagans whether they ought to wait until Friday to see how much money that had left over for offerings.

But Paul didn’t leave generosity to chance. We are to honor God with the first-fruit of our increase. And so Paul instructed the believers to “lay” up in “store” from the very “first day of the week.” Some reading this have thought that an offering was taken on the first day of the week. But a simple reading of 1Co 16:2 will show that the offering was stored with each individual in view of a future collection.

These three incidents, along with Christ’s resurrection, are the entirety of the New Testament references to the “first day of the week.” It is never called anything more special than that. And this contrasts with the Holy Sabbath which is named 55 times in the New Testament (compare to 61 in the Old--a much larger body of Scripture).

There is no Biblical evidence that the Sabbath has been changed. And in view of the fact that it was given before sin entered the world, in view of the fact that it was written in stone, in view of the fact that it says “remember”, and in view of many other facts, there is no reason to conclude that it has been changed by the Creator.

Thank you B5. You, by far, have provided the most articulate defense of the Sabbath than anyone on here.

Your "history" lesson to me does not go far enough back into history. You didn't give dates or even a century as to when The Church started the "tradition" of Sunday worship as ordered by Rome. I assume you mean in the 4th century under Constantine? How about we go further back in time. The book of Mark says "Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week!!! That was the start of and the first "biblical evidence" of why Christians, for 2,000 years, have had Sunday worship:

"On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside...." (Corinthians 55AD)

'So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,..' (Colossians 55-60AD)

'On the first day of the week we came together to break bread." (Book of Acts, 60AD)

“But every Lord’s day . . . gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions,...." (Didache 70 AD)

We keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead” (Letter of Barnabas 74AD).

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week..." (John 90AD)

"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day,.." (Revelations 90AD)

“[T]hose who were brought up in the ancient order of things [i.e. Jews] have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord’s day, on which also our life has sprung up again by him and by his death” (Ignatius Letter to the Magnesians 110AD)

“But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead” (Justin Martyr, First Apology 155AD)

“The apostles further appointed: On the first day of the week let there be service, and the reading of the holy scriptures, and the oblation [sacrifice of the Mass], because on the first day of the week [i.e., Sunday] our Lord rose from the place of the dead, and on the first day of the week he arose upon the world, and on the first day of the week he ascended up to heaven, and on the first day of the week he will appear at last with the angels of heaven” (Didascalia 2 [A.D. 225]).

So that covers the first 3 centuries of evidence of Sunday worship!!

Historical Mary

 

[Brakelite]

Thank you B5. You, by far, have provided the most articulate defense of the Sabbath than anyone on here.

Your "history" lesson to me does not go far enough back into history. You didn't give dates or even a century as to when The Church started the "tradition" of Sunday worship as ordered by Rome. I assume you mean in the 4th century under Constantine? How about we go further back in time. The book of Mark says "Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week!!! That was the start of and the first "biblical evidence" of why Christians, for 2,000 years, have had Sunday worship:

"On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside...." (Corinthians 55AD)

'So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,..' (Colossians 55-60AD)

'On the first day of the week we came together to break bread." (Book of Acts, 60AD)

“But every Lord’s day . . . gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions,...." (Didache 70 AD)

We keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead” (Letter of Barnabas 74AD).

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week..." (John 90AD)

"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day,.." (Revelations 90AD)

“[T]hose who were brought up in the ancient order of things [i.e. Jews] have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord’s day, on which also our life has sprung up again by him and by his death” (Ignatius Letter to the Magnesians 110AD)

“But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead” (Justin Martyr, First Apology 155AD)

“The apostles further appointed: On the first day of the week let there be service, and the reading of the holy scriptures, and the oblation [sacrifice of the Mass], because on the first day of the week [i.e., Sunday] our Lord rose from the place of the dead, and on the first day of the week he arose upon the world, and on the first day of the week he ascended up to heaven, and on the first day of the week he will appear at last with the angels of heaven” (Didascalia 2 [A.D. 225]).

So that covers the first 3 centuries of evidence of Sunday worship!!

Historical Mary

BF gave you biblical proof that there is no basis in scripture for Sunday sacredness. Your response affirmed this. That events took place on the first day of the week does not make the day sacred, blessed, holy, or necessarily a day that belongs to the Lord. Neither do any of those events remove the sanctity from the 7th day, a sanctity given to it by God alone, who alone can remove it.
You then reveal how early in history the apostasy began. Some began to honor Sunday because of the pagan Roman persecutions against Jews. The Jews were mounting insurrections against Rome and Rome was retaliating. In order to distance themselves from Jews and to make themselves appear different, some Christians compromised by changing the day they gathered together. What BF showed you was that the church in Rome compromised to make itself popular by following Constantine's civil laws and made them ecclesiastical.
But those changes were not held by the majority of Christians. The churches outside of Rome and Alexandria still observed the 7th day Sabbath for several centuries. They changed only when the Roman church gained political ascendancy and threatened the churches excommunication and war. Much like they did when adopting the Trinity formula devised by Athanasius... Persecution war and threats is the typical go- to method of enforcing doctrine by Rome when the convincing power of the holy Spirit is lacking.

 

[Marymog]

BF gave you biblical proof that there is no basis in scripture for Sunday sacredness. Your response affirmed this. That events took place on the first day of the week does not make the day sacred, blessed, holy, or necessarily a day that belongs to the Lord. Neither do any of those events remove the sanctity from the 7th day, a sanctity given to it by God alone, who alone can remove it.
You then reveal how early in history the apostasy began. Some began to honor Sunday because of the pagan Roman persecutions against Jews. The Jews were mounting insurrections against Rome and Rome was retaliating. In order to distance themselves from Jews and to make themselves appear different, some Christians compromised by changing the day they gathered together. What BF showed you was that the church in Rome compromised to make itself popular by following Constantine's civil laws and made them ecclesiastical.
But those changes were not held by the majority of Christians. The churches outside of Rome and Alexandria still observed the 7th day Sabbath for several centuries. They changed only when the Roman church gained political ascendancy and threatened the churches excommunication and war. Much like they did when adopting the Trinity formula devised by Athanasius... Persecution war and threats is the typical go- to method of enforcing doctrine by Rome when the convincing power of the holy Spirit is lacking.

Hi Backlit.

I agree with you that no where in Scripture is there an official decree that "All Christians will start worshiping on Sunday"!!!

I choose to practice what the Christians of the NT practiced: Sunday worship. I think they would know better than the men of the 16th century.

Have you chosen to practice what the Jews practice; Saturday worship?

Curious Mary

 

[Brakelite]

I choose to practice what the Christians of the NT practiced: Sunday worship

Can you give me an example in the scriptures please of a Christian observing Sunday as a sacred day? I can give you several examples of Christians, in the book of acts, even gentiles, who observed the Sabbath.

Have you chosen to practice what the Jews practice; Saturday worship?

I worship God every day. I don't worship any day. I do honor the 7th day Sabbath because I do believe God has the authority to request it. I exercise that faith in His word by choosing not to work during the hours of Sabbath. It has nothing to do with what Jews do.

 

[Marymog]

Can you give me an example in the scriptures please of a Christian observing Sunday as a sacred day?....

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[Marymog]

I can give you several examples of Christians, in the book of acts, even gentiles, who observed the Sabbath. ....

If you can....why didn't you?

 

[theefaith]

There's nothing wrong with religion if it's in harmony with the biblical mandates. Loving others and caring for them. Isaiah 58 describes the true Christian religion.

Religion and covenants are exclusive although anyone may join the new covenant by faith and baptism

 

[Marymog]

BF gave you biblical proof that there is no basis in scripture for Sunday sacredness.....

Thanks Backlit.

If the day Jesus rose from the dead (Sunday) and the Feast of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descended upon the believers in Jerusalem (Sunday) where the disciples witnessed the birth of the New Testament church in the coming of the Holy Spirit and the day the NT Christians gathered to break bread and set aside money (Sunday) is not sacred in your book then you go against Scripture and 99.9% of what all Christians practice. Your theory suggest that the gates of hell have prevailed against the teaching and practice of a majority of Christians! Even the Reformers don't support your theory. You have judged me on the Sabbath that I keep. Paul said you shouldn't do that. Why do you ignore Paul? Why don't you practice what the NT Christians practiced? You and your ilk, 2,000 years later, know better than they?

Ignatius of Antioch, who was a disciple of the Apostle John, said that Christians no longer observe Saturday Sabbath. I trust that man over the men you follow. Why do you trust your men?

Mary

 

[theefaith]

Am I understanding you correctly? You are here defending the authority of the Catholic church, and you believe the last six popes could actually be fakes?

The papacy is valid administrative authority of Christ church and new covenant the kingdom of God on earth but there have been anti-popes invalid imposters and we may be experiencing the great apostasy yes!

 

[BarneyFife]

The book of Mark says "Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week!!! That was the start of and the first "biblical evidence" of why Christians, for 2,000 years, have had Sunday worship:

All it is evidence for is that Jesus was risen early the first day of the week. Any other conclusion requires reading into the text something which is not there.

And then you're just copying and pasting other Scripture I already addressed, I believe. The mentions of Sunday in the New Testament amount to -0- evidence for Sunday sacredness. We'll never agree to them as being pertinent. I've waited many decades for proof from the Bible that the Sabbath has been abrogated and/or changed to Sunday. I have encountered none; nada; zip. By the way, you brought up this subject (by asking me what my favorite biblical tradition was)--not me.

Ignatius of Antioch, who was a disciple of the Apostle John, said that Christians no longer observe Saturday Sabbath. I trust that man over the men you follow. Why do you trust your men?

Protestants, practically by definition, do not regard anyone as authoritative in doctrinal matters except for the prophets and the apostles themselves. That's how we roll. Surely you must know that. Allow me to make it plain. To us, Ignatius of Antioch has no more authority than the guy who owns the hot dog stand on 43rd street. When you quote church fathers to a Protestant, it is literally a moot point.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isaiah 8:20)

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8)

:)

 

[mjrhealth]

The papacy is valid administrative authority of Christ church and new covenant the kingdom of God on earth but there have been anti-popes invalid imposters and we may be experiencing the great apostasy yes!

He is not HE is an Usurper and hence He must pay the price for taking what was and is not His.

He is only a valid authority of the catholic church because you and them have given him that authoirty over you. he has none from God. And any man who follows after a man is a fool.

Teh blind following the blind.

 

[Marymog]

All it is evidence for is that Jesus was risen early the first day of the week. Any other conclusion requires reading into the text something which is not there.

And then you're just copying and pasting other Scripture I already addressed, I believe. The mentions of Sunday in the New Testament amount to -0- evidence for Sunday sacredness. We'll never agree to them as being pertinent. I've waited many decades for proof from the Bible that the Sabbath has been abrogated and/or changed to Sunday. I have encountered none; nada; zip. By the way, you brought up this subject (by asking me what my favorite biblical tradition was)--not me.


Protestants, practically by definition, do not regard anyone as authoritative in doctrinal matters except for the prophets and the apostles themselves. That's how we roll. Surely you must know that. Allow me to make it plain. To us, Ignatius of Antioch has no more authority than the guy who owns the hot dog stand on 43rd street. When you quote church fathers to a Protestant, it is literally a moot point.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isaiah 8:20)

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8)

:)

Hmmmmm.....so a guy who was taught by an Apostle has no authority but a 16th century reformer does.....Fascinating theory.

 

[BarneyFife]

Hmmmmm.....so a guy who was taught by an Apostle has no authority but a 16th century reformer does.....Fascinating theory.

Who said anything about a 16th century reformer? Prophets and apostles = Holy Bible. And what's with this "theory" thing? I'm not posing any theories. We're all taught by apostles.

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; (John 17:20)

 

[theefaith]

He is not HE is an Usurper and hence He must pay the price for taking what was and is not His.

He is only a valid authority of the catholic church because you and them have given him that authoirty over you. he has none from God. And any man who follows after a man is a fool.

Teh blind following the blind.

thsts your fundamentalism not what the Bible says

Jesus Christ continues HIS ministry in His new covenant church thru Peter, the apostles, and their successors with the same mission, power, and authority!
Mt 16:18 Mt 28:19 Acts 1:17 acts 8:31 & 35 Lk 10:16 Jn 8:32 Jn 13:20 Jn 15:5 Jn 16:13 Jn 20:21-22 eph 2:20

Behold I am with you (the successors or the apostles until the end of the age, so the successors must remain until the end of the age) matt 28:19

(None of the so called reformers were apostles) (no man has authority to start a church)

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Teaching authority of the Apostles and their successors in the church founded in the one true founded by Jesus Christ!

Jesus Christ is the head of the church, (eph 5:23) the body of Christ,
(col 1:18) the new and eternal covenant, (pre-figured Jer 31:31) (Heb 8:8) new covenant replaces the Mosaic covenant, (Heb 8:13) Christ replaces David as king, (Lk 1:32-33) Jesus Christ is the only mediator between God and men, (1 Tim 2:5 & Heb 12:24) but a mediator remains on earth mediating between God and His people, but Christ ascended to heaven, (acts 1) before He did He founded His church, on Peter, and the apostles, and their successors!
Mt 16:18 Mt 28:19 Acts 1:17 acts 2:42 acts 8:31 & 35 Lk 10:16 Jn 8:32 Jn 13:20 Jn 16:13
Jn 20:21-22 eph 2:20

We must be taught by Peter, the apostles, and their successors! Lk 10:16 Matt 28:19 Jn 21:17

Matt 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Lk 1:4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

Acts 8:30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

Col 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

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The obedience of faith!

Rom 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name.

Taught the one true faith revealed by Christ to His apostles! Eph 4:5 Jude 1:3

We are not commanded to read and make doctrine for ourselves but obey those who God puts in authority.

John 13:20
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

Spiritual Fathers have care for our souls!

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Jn 21:17 feed my sheep:

Heb 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they care for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

1 Tim 1:2 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

Gal 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you

1 John 2
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.

That makes Paul and John spiritual fathers, pastors of our souls!

 

[BarneyFife]

thsts your fundamentalism not what the Bible says

Jesus Christ continues HIS ministry in His new covenant church thru Peter, the apostles, and their successors with the same mission, power, and authority!
Mt 16:18 Mt 28:19 Acts 1:17 acts 8:31 & 35 Lk 10:16 Jn 8:32 Jn 13:20 Jn 15:5 Jn 16:13 Jn 20:21-22 eph 2:20

Behold I am with you (the successors or the apostles until the end of the age, so the successors must remain until the end of the age) matt 28:19

(None of the so called reformers were apostles) (no man has authority to start a church)

—————————

Teaching authority of the Apostles and their successors in the church founded in the one true founded by Jesus Christ!

Jesus Christ is the head of the church, (eph 5:23) the body of Christ,
(col 1:18) the new and eternal covenant, (pre-figured Jer 31:31) (Heb 8:8) new covenant replaces the Mosaic covenant, (Heb 8:13) Christ replaces David as king, (Lk 1:32-33) Jesus Christ is the only mediator between God and men, (1 Tim 2:5 & Heb 12:24) but a mediator remains on earth mediating between God and His people, but Christ ascended to heaven, (acts 1) before He did He founded His church, on Peter, and the apostles, and their successors!
Mt 16:18 Mt 28:19 Acts 1:17 acts 2:42 acts 8:31 & 35 Lk 10:16 Jn 8:32 Jn 13:20 Jn 16:13
Jn 20:21-22 eph 2:20

We must be taught by Peter, the apostles, and their successors! Lk 10:16 Matt 28:19 Jn 21:17

Matt 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Lk 1:4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

Acts 8:30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

Col 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

————————-

The obedience of faith!

Rom 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name.

Taught the one true faith revealed by Christ to His apostles! Eph 4:5 Jude 1:3

We are not commanded to read and make doctrine for ourselves but obey those who God puts in authority.

John 13:20
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

Spiritual Fathers have care for our souls!

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Jn 21:17 feed my sheep:

Heb 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they care for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

1 Tim 1:2 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

Gal 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you

1 John 2
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.

That makes Paul and John spiritual fathers, pastors of our souls!

That makes Paul and John dead people who happened also to be penmen of Scripture. They were spiritual fathers to the ones they were addressing at the time. You might as well be saying an Azalea bush is actually a Redwood tree.

 

[theefaith]

That makes Paul and John dead people who happened also to be penmen of Scripture. They were spiritual fathers to the ones they were addressing at the time. You might as well be saying an Azalea bush is actually a Redwood tree.

No they were spiritual fathers to the Christians entrusted to them

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

 

[BarneyFife]

If the day Jesus rose from the dead (Sunday) and the Feast of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descended upon the believers in Jerusalem (Sunday) where the disciples witnessed the birth of the New Testament church in the coming of the Holy Spirit and the day the NT Christians gathered to break bread and set aside money (Sunday) is not sacred in your book then you go against Scripture

The Scripture doesn't declare any of these days to set a precedent for a weekly festival. The only weekly festival declared in Scripture is the seventh-day Sabbath (Saturday) commanded by God's voice and His writing on the tables of stone known as the ten commandments.

and 99.9% of what all Christians practice.

What does it matter? What if 99.9999999999999999% of all people decided to jump off a cliff. Would you do it?

Your theory suggest that the gates of hell have prevailed against the teaching and practice of a majority of Christians!

There's that word again. Everything that doesn't dovetail with Catholic dogma is considered a "theory." I love the "gates of hell" reference. Nice, dramatic, irrelevant touch. True Protestants couldn't care in the slightest what the majority of Christians do. The majority of people in the world aren't even Christians at all. Do you believe their beliefs should have any bearing on yours?

Even the Reformers don't support your theory.

True Protestants (it's important to distinguish "true" from "in name only") don't revere the Reformers the way Catholics do the church fathers and the saints. You shouldn't try to suggest similarities. It's not very honest.

You have judged me on the Sabbath that I keep. Paul said you shouldn't do that. Why do you ignore Paul?

Did we hurt your feelings by warning (not the same as judging) you?

Why don't you practice what the NT Christians practiced?

We do. Why don't you?

You and your ilk, 2,000 years later, know better than they?

No. See above.

Ignatius of Antioch, who was a disciple of the Apostle John, said that Christians no longer observe Saturday Sabbath. I trust that man over the men you follow. Why do you trust your men?

Who are these men that Sabbatarians follow? Do you mean Christ Himself, maybe?

So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. (Luke 4:16)

He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. (1 John 2:6)

 

[BarneyFife]

No they were spiritual fathers to the Christians entrusted to them

Exactly

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Which they did at the time by actual pastoral (literally meaning flock-feeding) care and to us, the spiritual descendants, by penning Scripture (how else could they feed us?). We Protestants don't wring apostolic succession from Scripture. It's not there.

 

[theefaith]

Exactly

Which they did at the time by actual pastoral (literally meaning flock-feeding) care and to us, the spiritual descendants, by penning Scripture (how else could they feed us?). We Protestants don't wring apostolic succession from Scripture. It's not there.

and Peter is in charge of the universal church the kingdom of God on earth
Matt 16:18

The church is Catholic: (universal)

Jn 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Jn 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Jn 1:29
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Matt 5:14
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Matt 13:38
The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

Matt 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Matt 28:18-20
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.

Mark 16:15-16
And he said to them, Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Jn 1:9
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Jn 4:42
And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

Jn 14:26
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Jn 6:33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

Jn 8:12
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Jn 10:36
Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world...

Jn 12:47

And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world

Jn 16:12-13
I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them
now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

2 cor 5:18
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us (the whole world) to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

World = Universal = Catholic


The church is Apostolic:


Matthew 16:18-10
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Luke 22:28-30
You [the apostles] are those who have continued with me in my trials; and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

John 15:16
You [the apostles] did not choose me, but I [Jesus] chose you and appointed
you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide...

Matthew 28:16,18-20
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee... And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore
and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.

John 20:21-23
Jesus said to them [the apostles] again, Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.

Ephesians 2:19-20
... but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.

Acts 1:
Matthias replaces Judas who had the ministry of apostle.

Heb 3:11 Acts 1:
Jesus is an apostle, the apostles are already in succession to Him, they in turn would have successors.

Apostolic Succession pre-figured in the successors of Moses!

Mosaic covenant pre-figures apostolic succession with the successors of Moses, sitting in the chair (Greek cathedral) of Moses and Jesus Christ requires obedience of them.
(Mt 23) they had the keys of the kingdom and power to bind and loose!
This power and authority are given to Peter and the apostles and their successors in matt 16:18 and Matt 28:19 the great commission cannot be accomplished by the apostles alone, hence the need for their successors to continue to teach all nations, and baptize the disciples! Jn 4:1 Jesus requires obedience to Peter, the apostles and their successors who have the keys and the power to bind and loose!

 

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Matthew 16:18-10
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

He was speaking of " revelation" by which these things where reveled to Him of which you have none. Form one lie a whole religion was birthed, and bablylon made prisoners of men and they love it.