• Carlsen Fanning posted an update 10 months, 3 weeks ago

    Was there salvation outside of the ark? Was there salvation outside of the nation of Israel? Will there be bilingual spanish church in houston outside the church of Christ? The answer to all of these questions, per the Bible, is actually “no”.

    Before your emotions obtain the best of you, calm yourself down and consider two preliminary points; (1) I grew up in one of the largest, main-stream denominations in America – not in the church of Christ, so I can speak right to this problem. What I’m about to share with you comes from years of personal study, debating, argumentation, and absolute have a problem with idea that salvation is in mere one church. (2) Jesus said in Matthew 22:29, “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the energy of God.” Many “religious” people have formed their ideas about salvation on their own opinions, pre-conceptions, and statements that they’ve heard again and again since they’ve been children (rather than the Bible).

    The Bible says that there surely is no salvation found outside of the church of Christ. The Apostle Paul said in Colossians 1:18 that Jesus is the head of the body, the church. The body and the church are one in the same. Paul told the Ephesians, in Ephesians 5:25, “…even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for this.” The church is singular around, and Jesus gave Himself for the church. In Ephesians 5:23, Paul said, “…even while Christ may be the head of the church: and he is the saviour of your body.” For a person to say that they can be saved without being an associate of the church of Christ reveals their ignorance of the Scripture, because the Apostle Paul says that Christ is the “saviour” of the body, and the body is the church.

    How many “churches” was Paul speaking of? Now watch this; exactly the same Paul told the Ephesians, in 4:4, that there is one body. If iglesia bilingue en houston is the church, as Paul stated, and, as he also stated, that there surely is only 1 body, then there’s only one church. A kid can understand this simple Bible teaching.

    Although, iglesia bautista en houston begs the question, “Which church is the one church?” Well, let’s work with a simple example. Martin Luther was a fine man with the noble desire to get back to the Bible. After Luther’s death, his follower’s established the denomination bearing his name; the Lutheran Church. Now, was this the main one church that Paul spoke of in his epistles? How could it possibly be – the Lutheran Church didn’t exist when Paul wrote his epistle. In reality, the Lutheran Church was established some 1500 years after Paul spoke his inspired words; therefore, it isn’t logical, reasonable, or biblical to summarize that the Lutheran Church is the one church of the Bible, because it simply didn’t exist at that time (the initial century)!