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“Where is the Catholic Church mentioned in the Bible?!” I find this to be somewhat of a weird question raised by Protestants because the word “Catholic” simply means universal. But interestingly, the word Catholic is actually found in Acts 9:31 in the Greek.

Acts 9:31: “The church throughout all [Greek: ἐκκλησία,καθ’,ὅλης ,τῆς ] Judea and Galilee and Sama'ria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.”

The English word Catholic is a transliteration of the Greek “katholikos” which is a compound word from “kata” which means according to, and “holos” which means whole.

Now Protestants would respond with, “It’s talking about the universal church, not the Roman Catholic Church”. But there are a couple issues with this statement:

#1 It isn’t our position that Catholicism started in Rome. The Catholic Church started first in Jerusalem
(Matt. 16:18; Acts 2).

#2 Roman is just 1 out of the 6 rites in Catholicism. We also have the Alexandrian rite, the Antiochian rite, the Armenian rite, the Syro-Oriental rite & the Byzantine rite. So not every member of the Catholic Church is in the Roman/Latin rite.

#3 Protestants are reading their 16th + century presuppositions back into the ancient noscriptures. They assume that when the Scriptures speak of the church then it must be referring to them. But this can’t be the case. There are thousands of Protestant groups out there today and yet every single one of them only came into existence sometime after the 1500s. And yes, that also includes non-denominationalism which only arose in the 18th century.

Protestants would then make the claim that the Church is the body of Christ and not a physical building. In which I say, I agree. Catholicism doesn’t teach that the Church is simply a physical building. The Church is the body of Christ where Jesus is the Head (See: Catechism of the Catholic Church #846)

However the Church is also visible and identifiable. The Scriptures simply doesn’t teach an invisible-only church.

Isaiah 2:2 says, ““Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.”

Matthew 18:17 says, ““And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.”

And Timothy 3:15 says “But if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”

When the Scriptures speak of the Church it is not speaking of it vaguely. There’s no such thing as a theory-neutral belief. In fact to think that there’s such thing as theory-neutrality is self-defeating since that view itself isn’t neutral. All beliefs are theory-laden.

So when the Scriptures speak of the Church (the body of Christ):

It’s referring to a church that believes in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)

It’s referring to a church that contains a college of bishops (Acts 20:28; 1 Timothy 3:1).

It’s referring to a church that uses altars, offers incenses and offers the Eucharist (Malachi 1:11; 1 Corinthians 10:16-21)

It’s referring to a church that partakes in the sacrament of confession (John 20:23; James 5:14-16)

It’s referring to a church that believes in both noscripture and sacred oral tradition (2 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Timothy 1:13-14; 2:1-2; 2 John 1:12)

It’s referring to a church that believes baptism is necessary for salvation (1 Peter 3:21, Acts 2:38)

It’s referring to a church that believes St. Peter was the shepherd (Greek: poimainó) over Christ’s sheep (the universal Body of Christ) in John 21:16

It’s referring to a church that has the power to bind & loose and excommunicate people (Matthew 18:15-18)

It’s referring to a church that has the power to establish church-wide councils (Acts 15) & more.