Question:  If the Bible is the “only” word of God, and the word of God is Truth, and the truth is “ONE”, how come there was only one church for 1500 years (the Eastern Church was still in communion with Rome except for the authority of Rome).  Since 1517 (the Reformation) until 1900 there were 1500 new sects and from 1900 to today we see over 28,000 new Protestant religions.  Don’t you find that rather revealing since the truth is one?

            Patrick

Answer:  Dear Patrick,

            It seems that you are arguing that the Roman Catholic Church represents the one true physically organized and incorporated church of God on earth.  Forgive me if I am wrong, but that seems to be the force of your comment/question.  There is a problem with such an assertion – the early creeds, Apostles’ and Nicene – affirm that the church, the body of Christ is universal.  In short, no one corporation of men has been given an exclusive franchise to market the gospel of Jesus Christ – neither can one incorporated entity put God in a box, “owning” him.

            Your approach to the Bible and truth appears to is an ad hominem argument (or what is called a straw man) positing that the proliferation of denominations is proof that they can’t all be right.  There is no biblical validation for such an assertion.

            In Christ,

            Greg Albrecht