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8. You're reading it right. It was the church Jesus said he would build through his disciple Peter.
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 03:37 PM
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Jesus is quoted in Matthew 16:13-21

The Catholic Church, Jesus's 2,000 year old church, renamed Jesus Church as the universal church at the Council of Trent (catholic means "universal" in greek) just after the great schism was caused by the fallen priest, Martin Luther, who left to found his own version of christianity because of what he considered the sins of church leaders. Luther thought he -- 1,500 years after Jesus and his Apostles spread Jesus's church, and who became bishops of that church by 44 AD -- knew better than the 12 Apostles who actually lived with, heard, and recorded what Jesus actually said and taught them. Jesus repeats his Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20, when he tells his Apostles to spread The Word. The disciples became Jesus's Apostles 50 days later, when the Holy Spirit descended upon them at Pentacost in the Upper Room. Acts 2 (or Luke-Acts, as it's often called.).

Then read Luke 10:1-23, to see what Jesus says about those who no longer follow the apostles teachings about Jesus (in the four gospels and the letters of Peter, James, John and Revelation).

Martin Luther threw out 6 books of the Hebrew Bible that Jesus considered scripture, which Jesus already knew inside and out. Luther also wanted to throw out the Epistle of James (who claimed that faith without works is dead, as did Paul in his letters) and Revelation, which Luther said "ought to at least reveal something."

Remember what Jesus said about his Apostles in Luke 10:16 --
"He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”

The history of church founders...

Calvary chapel, 1965: Chuck Smith
Mormon church, 1830: Joseph Smith
Disciples of Christ, 1809: Thomas Campbell
Baptist church, 1609: John Smyth
Presbyterian church, 1560: John Knox
Calvinist church 1536: John Calvin
Lutheran church 1517: Martin Luther
Eastern-Orthodox church, 1054: Eastern Patriarchs
Catholic Church: 33: Jesus Christ


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