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THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO Salvation "BEYOND" the Church of Christ Was there salvation outside of the ark? Was there salvation outside of the nation of Israel? Will there be salvation outside the church of Christ? The answer to all of these questions, per the Bible, is clearly "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 biggest, main-stream denominations in the us - not in the church of Christ, so I can speak right to this matter. What I'm going to share with you originates from years of personal study, debating, argumentation, and absolute have a problem with proven fact 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 your 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 it." The church is singular around, and Jesus gave Himself for the church. In Ephesians 5:23, Paul said, "...even as Christ may be the head of the church: and he could be the saviour of the body." For an individual to say that they can be saved without being a member of the church of Christ reveals their ignorance of the Scripture, because the Apostle Paul says that Christ may be the "saviour" of your body, and the body is the church. Just how many "churches" was Paul speaking of? Now watch this; exactly the same Paul told the Ephesians, in 4:4, that there surely is one body. If your body is the church, as Paul stated, and, as he also stated, that there surely is only one body, then there's only one church. A kid can understand why simple Bible teaching. Although, iglesia en houston begs the question, "Which church may be the one church?" Well, let's work with a simple example. Martin Luther was an excellent man with the noble need 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. The truth is, the Lutheran Church was established some 1500 years after Paul spoke his inspired words; therefore, it is not logical, reasonable, or biblical to conclude that the Lutheran Church may be the one church of the Bible, because it simply didn't exist at that time (the first century)!
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