(04-08-2024, 10:38 PM)Maxmars Wrote: I always thought the whole idea of "Catholic" was meant to directly imply that everyone can be accepted in the community, with only some exigent circumstances being excepted... "unwillingness" being chief among them.
Not sure if the idea of being charismatic somehow alters the individual's faith. Isn't that more of an overt decision about behavior in worshipping? Why would they be considered somehow 'excluded?'
By the way, I didn't get the impression that Byrd was saying Christianity (or perhaps Catholicism) didn't exist until after Constantine's Nicene Council... maybe I'm confused.
Byrd seemed to me to insinuate that the Roman Catholic Church was the “original” church as I understood his post.
For first 300 odd years of christianity, the faith was banned in Rome, they killed Christian’s in Rome
https://www.gotquestions.org/origin-Cath...hurch.html, historical record doesn’t seem to indicate the early church was a Roman creation, more an enemy to Rome
my point, before Roman Catholicism, before Constantine, the christian church was functioning without any assistance from Romes authority
and no, I don’t want to be accepted by the Roman Catholic Church, universal or not
