The Orthodox church claims to be the “one holy, catholic, apostolic” church. That’s fine and dandy, I guess. Except, the same title is also being claimed by another paganism based religion, the RCC. So, which is the true “one, holy, catholic, apostolic” church? Well, neither.
Anyway, many RCC say the Orthodox church “split” from the RCC. The Orthodox on the other hand say the RCC is the “confused” one which split from them. But whatever the case maybe, by splitting from each other, neither can claim to be the “one” body of Christ. For by claiming to be the “one holy, apostolic” church would be saying the other one is NOT “holy catholic apostolic”.
Therein lies the quandary.
Some catholic defenders contend that the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic church have the same father, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. They also say that the Protestant sects are daughters of the Roman Catholic church. This is of course contrary to scriptures for in the holy book it is clearly stated that the Lord Jesus Christ is the GROOM of the church. As far as the Protestants are concerned, the bible talks of a church that is called the “mother of harlots.” Figure it out yourself.
Besides, the if the founder of the Church is Christ, they it is only logical and reasonable to assume that the name of his (Christ) church be named after him, Christ church or Church of Christ. It cannot be Roman Catholic church as those names don’t even appear in the bible where the life and ministry of the Lord is chronicled.
Still other catholic defenders could not accept that the church they belong to is not the church founded by Christ. They come up with some mumbo jumbo defeating the pagans so on and so forth. The reality is, the Catholic church was defeated and conquered by paganism. All of the rituals, traditions and practices of the Roman Catholic church and it’s offspring are based on pagan practices, traditions and rituals. For example, Christmas
In the 4th century CE, Catholicism imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Catholic leaders succeeded in converting large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Catholics.[2]
The problem was that there was nothing intrinsically Christian about Saturnalia. To remedy this, these Catholics leaders named Saturnalia’s concluding day, December 25th, to be Jesus’ birthday
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