The 40 Questions Most Frequently Asked
About The Catholic Church
By Non-Catholics
13. What Difference Which Church?
Is it not true that all Churches are good, and that it makes no difference what we believe as long as we live right?
No, this is not true for:
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This would mean that truth and falsehood were equally pleasing to God. |
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That the unity for which Christ prayed would be an impossibility. |
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It DOES make a difference what we believe as well as what we do. |
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"He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be condemned."
St. Matt 16:16 |
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"He who hears you, hears me; and he who rejects you, rejects me; and he who rejects me, rejects
Him who sent me." St. Luke 10:16 |
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"But if he refuse to hear even the Church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican." St.
Matt. 18:17 |
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