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Click to View Self test: Are You Worshipping God in Spirit and in Truth, OR IN VAIN? Origin of Church: Click to View Defining the Church (Major study) Click to View When & Where Did The New Testament Church Begin? Click to View What is the "scriptural name" of the church in the Bible? Click to View Church Kitchens: Worship center or Social club? Click to View part 1 The origin of the one true church from Old Testament prophecy and its beginning on the day of Pentecost. Click to View View part 1 with real player (25 minutes) Click to View part 2 The origin of man-made denominations. Click to View View part 2 with real player (25 minutes) Click to View part 3 Finding the New Testament church today. Learn how to become a member of the church of the Bible. Click to View View part 3 with real player (25 minutes) Organization of the church Click to View Click to View The office of Elders, pastors and bishops Click to View The New Testament Church had no world headquarters! Click to View The ... ... https://www.bible.ca/index-ntx.htm | Size: 13K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | Autocephalous Orthodox Churches centered at Constantinople Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is considered "first among equals". 1 Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Click to View 13 Patriarchs (Autocephalous churches) Click to View Metropolitans Click to View Bishops Click to View Priests/Parishes (Local churches) Learn the Truth: Click to View The office of Elders, pastors and bishops Click to View The New Testament Church has no world headquarters! I. Introduction to Autocephalous Orthodox Churches centered at Constantinople There are fourteen Orthodox churches that are generally accepted as "autocephalous," which in Greek means "self-headed." An autocephalous church possesses the right to resolve all internal problems on its own authority and the ability to choose its own bishops, including the Patriarch, Archbishop or Metropolitan who heads the church. While each autocephalous church acts independently, they all remain in full sacramental and canonical communion with one another. Today these autocephalous Orthodox churches ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/orthodox-church-autocephalous-hierarchy-organization.htm | Size: 64K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | Sola Scriptura and the Apostolic Fathers: 250 AD: Cyprian Sola Scriptura: The Bible alone is enough! Apostolic Fathers used scripture as the primary defense against false doctrine. Click to View Sola Scriptura home page Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Dates they lived and other information. Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Five kinds of Tradition. Click to View Mandatory: Apostolic Fathers Catechism Class for Catholics and Orthodox. 250 AD: Cyprian: "But that they who are at Rome do not observe those things in all cases which are handed down from the beginning, and vainly pretend the authority of the apostles; any one may know also from the fact, that concerning the celebration of Easter, and concerning many other sacraments of divine matters, he may see that there are some diversities among them, and that all things are not observed among them alike, which are observed at Jerusalem, just as in very many other provinces also many things are varied because of the difference of the places and names"(Cyprian, Epistle 74, 6) Click to View The ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-apostolic-fathers-cyprian.htm | Size: 24K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | Did the New Testament Church have a world headquarters? The New Testament Church had no world headquarters? Click to View Introduction Click to View Graphical Mouse Rollover of gradual change of organization over time Click to View 4 Competing views of organization Click to View Outline: 33-150 AD Click to View Outline: 150-250 AD Click to View Outline: 451-588 AD Click to View Outline: 588-606 AD Click to View Outline: 606 AD-Today In order to function successfully, it is essential that every institution have a government to oversee it and execute its chosen policies of operation. The church about which we read in the Bible is no exception to this need. The New Testament church is not a democracy. It is not an institution where every member has voting rights as to what it does and what it does not do. Quite to the contrary, it is a monarchy. It is a divine monarchy. Jesus Christ is the head or king. The Bible teaches in Ephesians 1:22-23, that God "gave him to be the head over all things to the church. Which is his body, the fullness of ... ... https://www.bible.ca/ntx-church-headquarters.htm | Size: 10K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 5: | 30-150AD: Church organization the same as in the Bible Blueprint ... Click to View Find a local congregation of the New Testament church in your own home town. Click to View Bartholomew Orthodox, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Graphical representations of 30 - 150 AD: Click to View Graphical Mouse Rollover of gradual change of organization over time (Click on each graphic for high resolution) Click to View Click to View Directory of Churches of the first century in 70AD: (Click on map for high resolution) Click to View Regions of churches mentioned in the Bible: 70AD Notice that the neither Rome or Italy are mentioned as a region of churches. This proves that the bishop of Rome really was not a central authority during the first century. While mentioning four other regions of churches, God never even gave Rome honorable mention. Of course, just because these 4 regions are mentioned, does not mean they are centers of power. Rather, they are natural collections of churches within already defined provinces. We do the same ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-33-150AD.htm | Size: 28K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 6: | The organization of the Roman Catholic church Click to View The New Testament Church has no world headquarters! Introduction: Catholic hierarchy graphically illustrated: Click to View There are a total of at least 30 Roman Catholic denominations in the world. There are 22 different liturgies within the Roman Catholic church (which we have graciously counted as 1) and between 8 - 66 independent schisms. Notice there are only three levels of control: World head, Diocese head, Local church. All dots on graphic below are local churches with differing levels of authority. The one Blue dot (where the Pope preaches every Sunday) is the local church of St. John Lateran Basilica that is the only local church in the world to have all three levels of authority: World head, diocese head, Local parish The black dots are local churches (always called "Cathedrals" which is Latin for "chair,") that have bishops as their preacher every Sunday. There are 2946 of these Cathedrals (local churches) in the Catholic church presently. There is only one ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/catholic-church-hierarchy-organization.htm | Size: 31K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 7: | Apostate church organization: 250-451AD: The rise of the diocesan ... Click to View Find a local congregation of the New Testament church in your own home town. Click to View Bartholomew Orthodox, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Introduction: 250-451AD The period of the 5 Patriarchs: The oligarchic diocesan episcopate. Three changes take place in this era. 250 AD: "The rise of diocesan bishops." One bishop began to rule a small group of churches in addition to his own local church. This was documented in the previous study. Click here for more: Outline: 150-250 AD 300 AD: "The rise of metropolitans." These men were nothing more than the diocesan bishops from the large and important cities that began to rule over the bishops of the smaller cities. Now you have bishops over bishops. Interesting, the Roman Catholic church later simplified its organization to only three levels, so that all bishops were under a single metropolitan, (which grew into a Patriarch), which they called, The Pope", or the bishop of Rome. The Eastern ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-250-451AD.htm | Size: 52K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 8: | Apostate church organization: 150-250AD: The rise of the single ... ...The rise of the Diocesan Bishop". Finally this bishops of larger churches began to exercise control over smaller churches. Bishops began to control not only their own local churches, but a group of local churches within a geographic area that is known today as a "diocese". Click to View John Paul II Catholic, Bishop of Rome, Pope Click to View Introduction Click to View Graphical Mouse Rollover of gradual change of organization over time Click to View 4 Competing views of organization Click to View Outline: 33-150 AD Click to View Outline: 250-451 AD Click to View Outline: 451-588 AD Click to View Outline: 588-606 AD Click to View Outline: 606 AD-Today Click to View Catholic organization today Click to View Orthodox organization today Click to View True Bible organization today Click to View Find a local congregation of the New Testament church in your own home town. Click to View Bartholomew Orthodox, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Graphical ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-150-250AD.htm | Size: 54K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 9: | The Ignatian Forgeries: They claim to be written by Ignatius ... Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Dates they lived and other info. All scholars reject 8 of Ignatius' alleged writings as forgeries and say the 7 remaining letters are genuine and were written in 110AD. Some scholars reject them all as forgeries that were written about 250AD We take the firm view that all 15 Ignatian letters are forgeries. All of the letters that claim to be written by Ignatius are fakes. Almost nothing is known about the real Ignatius. See Schaff's comments below. A. Fraudulent forgeries of Ignatius: The real Ignatius, lived about 110 AD. A total of 15 letters were allegedly written by Ignatius. We take the view that all 15 of Ignatius's letters are forgeries. The fact that neither Eusebius (300 AD) nor Jerome (495 AD) make reference to the first 8 Ignatian letters (Tarsians, Antiochians, Hero, Philippians, Maria to Ignatius, Mary, 1st. St. John, 2nd St. John, Virgin Mary) makes it likely that they were composed as late as 300-500 AD. It is this reason that all ... ... https://www.bible.ca/history-ignatius-forgeries-250AD.htm | Size: 30K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 10: | Sola Scriptura: Apostolic Fathers Catechism Class for Catholics ... Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Dates they lived and other information. Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Five kinds of Tradition. Click to View Mandatory: Apostolic Fathers Catechism Class for Catholics and Orthodox. Introduction to the Catechism: In order for our truth to shine through, it is important that Catholic and Orthodox believers understand exactly why their objections to sola Scriptura are invalid when applied to us. So we have created a special catechism class especially for you so that you will not make the mistake of ever using these invalid objections as you read the information below regarding the apostolic Fathers view of using "scripture only" as the only source of doctrinal authority. Catechism Question #1: When you see the word "tradition" used by the fathers, why is often of no power in refuting sola Scriptura? Answer: When the fathers would refer to "tradition" often they referred to scripture itself! This should not surprise us since the Bible calls scripture ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-apostolic-fathers-catechism-class-for-catholics-and-orthodox.htm | Size: 17K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 11: | Synagogue Organization and Government: Elders, officials, attendants ... Synagogue worship was the prototype for Christian Church. GOVERNMENT IN SYNAGOGUES A. Leadership and government Transition from Temple to Synagogue to church: 1. Qualifications change from pedigree to morality and living spiritual faith. a. The Hebrew Jerusalem temple had animal sacrifices and special "ordained" high priests in a system of clericalism based upon pedigree. Like the dynasty of Judean Kings and scribes, the High priest had to trace his parentage back to Levi though specific genealogical records. There are many examples in the Bible of the general population rejecting the successor in prophetic and kingly dynasties. Both Eli and Samuel's children were worthless and the people rejected Samuel's sons on moral basis. 1 Samuel 2:22; 1 Samuel 8:1-5 b. Synagogues began in 280 BC as a simple group of spiritually minded common Jewish men (Non-Levite) in Egypt devoted to reading the Torah and prayer. Over time a body of elders was appointed from these men. By about 100 BC the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Government-organization-Elders-officials-attendants-Synagogue-Independent-overseer-shepherd-first-century-early-Christian-Church-New-Testament-prototype-ancient.htm | Size: 94K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 12: | Apostate church organization: 451-588AD: The reign of the 5 Patriarchs ... Apostate church organization: 451-588AD: The reign of the 5 Patriarchs. This was a departure from the simple bible blueprint of a group of equal elders (presbyters) governing only within their own local church. Click to View Learn from the Bible Blueprint, how the church was organized by the apostles! Click to View Find a local congregation of the New Testament church that is organized exactly as the Bible says The Historical Development of the Papal and Patriarchal Systems of Centralized Church Government. Click to View John Paul II Catholic, Bishop of Rome, Pope Click to View Introduction Click to View 4 Competing views of organization Click to View Outline: 33-150 AD Click to View Outline: 150-250 AD Click to View Outline: 250-451 AD Click to View Outline: 588-606 AD Click to View Outline: 606 AD-Today Click to View Catholic organization today Click to View Orthodox organization today Click to View True Bible organization today Click to View Find a local congregation of the New ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-451-588AD.htm | Size: 21K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 13: | Organization of the church 33-606 AD" Java interface Bible organization of the church! Roll your mouse over the DATE to see how the organization changed from what is in the Bible. The first century church had one level of organizaituon, elders/overseers/shepherds.In AD 381, the final organizational evolution of the Orthodox church was achieved with 5 levels of organization. In AD 606, the final organization evolution of the Roman Catholic church was achieved with 3 levels of organization. Time to stop worshipping God with man-made doctrines and organizations and begin following the simple organization of the Apostolic church. Click to View Bible: 33-100AD All elders equal. Bible only for doctrine (elder/bishop one office) 150 AD One elder exalted above the others (elder/bishop still one office) Bible still rules 200 AD One Bishop per church overseeing the eldership (elder/bishop two offices) Bible only 250 AD One diocesan Bishop overseeing other Bishops of other churches. Still bible only 300 AD One Metropolitan Bishop overseeing other ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-mouse-rollover.htm | Size: 10K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 14: | Apostate church organization: From 606 AD to the present time ... Click to View Find a local congregation of the New Testament church in your own home town. Click to View Bartholomew Orthodox, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch From 606 AD to the present time: 622 AD: Muslims change the church in 622 AD leaving only Rome and Constantinople as world powers. This is the way it has been to this very day. 622 AD: The Muslims wipe out Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria leaving Rome and Constantinople as the two dominant centers of power in the church. "The patriarchates of Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria were distracted and weakened in the course of the fifth and sixth centuries by the tedious monophysite controversies, and subsequently, after the year 622, were reduced to but a shadow by the Mohammedan [Muslims, Islam] conquests." (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church) In this way, the devil created the political environment for the great split of 1054 AD by removing all other authorities, except these two. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-606AD-today.htm | Size: 19K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 15: | Apostate church organization: 588 - 606 AD: The final dog fight ... Gregory I, denies the title even for himself. Biship of Rome, Gregory I protests John IV the Faster's use of the title "universal bishop" saying such a claim is a sign "the antichrist is near" and calls it a "proud and profane title" and equates John IV's to the devil himself. 4 595 AD: John IV the Faster dies on September 2, shortly after claiming to be pope of the world. 5 602 AD Roman Emperor Maurice is murdered in a coup by Phocas, who then becomes emperor. 6 604 AD Gregory, the bishop of Rome dies and is replaced by Sabinian, who reigns for two years. 7 606 AD Sabinian, the bishop of Rome dies and is replaced by Boniface III. Phocas writes to the new bishop of Rome, Boniface III and through imperial decree of the Roman government, proclaims Boniface III, as the "Head of all the Churches" and "Universal Bishop". Phocas transfers the title from Constantinople to Rome. Boniface III, Bishop of Rome takes title: "universal Bishop": Catholicism is formally born in its final evolved form ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-588-606AD.htm | Size: 57K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 16: | 4 Competing Views of Church Organization Click to View Find a local congregation of the New Testament church in your own home town. Click to View Bartholomew Orthodox, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Today: 4 Competing views of organization: There are four different ways that believers in Christ view the development of papal power in Rome: The true position: True Christians follow the organization of exactly what God already revealed in the Bible. If God wanted a Patriarchal system, it would be revealed in the Bible and Set up on the Day of Pentecost. If God wanted Rome to be the all time world headquarters of the church, the first century Christians knew nothing about it and God failed to mention such in the Bible. True Christians do Bible things in Bible ways, call Bible things by Bible names and view the Bible as a complete inspired blueprint revealed once for all time. True Christians view the Bible as the only roadmap and reject all creeds and councils as of human origin. The foundational ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-perspective.htm | Size: 11K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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