“When was the
first Church started?
I can not and
will not ever understand how Baptist can believe that as important as the church
is to the Lord, that He did not start the first church while He was here on
earth. Some would rather call themselves Protestants than Baptist. There is no
history that the Baptist was ever part of Catholicism. We are not nor have we
ever been Protestants.
The Universal Invisible church makes no sense. There is no way that the
Universal Invisible church can carryout the commandments the Lord commanded her
to do. The definition of the word church itself is totally opposite of what the
Universal Invisible church is, and the Universal Invisible church totally
destroys the true meaning of Baptism and makes it totally worthless.
The Lord said in 1st Cor. 12:28 “And God
hath set some in the church,
first apostles,” Does not this tell us, that God called out
His church and the first ones He called out and set in the church were apostles?
We find in Matthew chapter 4 Jesus called out Peter and Andrew then He went on
through towns and villages calling out people. Then in Matthew 5 they go on top
of the mountain group together and Jesus preached to them. I have to ask, what
was this event, a picnic? Well I can’t help to believe it was the first church
assembled together and Jesus preached the first sermon. It makes more sense than
a church scattered out all over the world that cannot agree on what God says in
His Holy Script.
The Universal Invisible church is nothing more or less than a compromise for
a lot of “churches” that have no history. It is not a body fitly framed together
Eph. 4:16. The members cannot meet together to observe the Lord’s Supper. The
bottom line is the Universal Invisible church is nothing like unto that in which
the Lord describes in His Holy Script. Acts Chapter 2 doesn’t have anything to
do with the beginning of the church. Jesus promised to send the Comforter once
He had left. We see in Acts 2:1 - 4 the Holy Spirit came into the Church to
replace the Lord Jesus, because He had just ascended to His kingdom. Nothing was
started here, it was that the Church was to wait for the Holy Spirit to come and
continue the glorious work that the Saviour had started. And it was indeed a
glorious time because about 3,000 souls were saved and added to the church on
this day.