Tu es Petrus
et super hanc petram adificabo ecclesiam meam
et porte inferi non prevalebunt adversus eam.
Et tibi dabo claves regni celorum.
You are Peter,
And upon this Rock I will build My Church:
and the gates of hell shall not overcome it.
And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
Before the word 'Christian' be used, there are the Word of God 'Ecclesia(The Church)'..I am as the unworthy person in speaking of His Holy Word and His Works will using the terms 'Ecclesia/The Church','Khatolikos/Catholic' and 'Christian'..
Do not thinking that all this terms are separated with each other..instead it will clarify the 'Fullness of Truth' in His Bride,The Catholic Church..
The Church that Christ did mentioned and built upon His Rock,Petrus explaining something that we should bear in mind;The Visible Kingdom of God upon the Earth..In the Holy Scriptures, we know that the Church Herself will be undefiled and the gates of hell will not overcome Her..The Church is solely the Body of Christ that connecting us with salvation because The Church is His own Body..'Only through Christ that we can be saved'..Could we now see the relationship between the salvation through Christ along within the Church? it is not 'or',and 'and' but 'along within' The Church for She is the Body Christ because Christ is Her Head and They are One..The broken hearted,incomplete,suffered and all that have troubles in soul and body are invited to come to 'Wholeness' in the Christ within the Church.
Khatolikos in Greek Holy Scriptures of God translated into Catholicus in Latin and this word could be clearly found where The Lord commanded the disciples to give the Good News/Gospel to the whole world(Where the Universalities He laid is very clear)..So,this will included the persons that did not know the Gospel too. As in today cases also that majority of the world did not know and rejected Christ as human Saviour(Iesu humanus Salvator)..Catholic term is indeed applied to the people of God that been called to God as He said 'I will draw everyone to Myself'..whether certain people accepted Christ or not,they are invited to know God in Catholic Church..the Catholic Church did used the term 'Pilgrim Church' to describe this condition..then the people that accepted,inside,will be enter and 'invisible ignorance'(subjected to Christ mercy if they are the 'people of good will') to Christ within Catholic Church will be saved.But for those that rejected Christ and don't want to be within Catholic Church are outside the salvation..
Christian is been used after 'The Church' and 'Catholic/Katholikos'..It is first to be used in Antioch..Christian means the people of God that believed in Christ..Christian term not as the term of Body of Christ instead of 'The Church' and 'Catholic';for The Church is the Body of Christ and Catholic is the only Name should be used to identify His Body..so,how can we used the term Christian? we could using this,as long as we did not describes it as the Name of The Body of Christ;The Church..if we apply this term to the Name of The Body of Christ, then we are mentioning any persons that saying that they are followers of Christ eventhough they don't want to live in full Sacraments of Christ..This is contrary to the Will of God that His people should be live in 'Fullness of Truth',so we should avoid not to mistaken the term of this..Christian term not enough to describe the 'Fullness of Truth' but 'Catholic' was and still is the correct Name of Body of Christ to describe 'Fullness of Truth'..Back again,how to used this term..We are not prevented to use this term as we all are children of God that believed in Christ and using this to the great extent to live towards holiness and this term must be not contra to The Church and Catholic and it must parallel to those two terms.
The question now,which one of them, 'The Church','Catholic/Khatolikos' and 'Christian' that are the 'Fullness of Truth'?.. The answer to this is- "Tu Es Petrus"..where Petrine to be found,then there are The Church,Catholic/Khatolikos and Christian..
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