Essay On Why Should One Belong To The Catholic Church

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Why should one belong to the Catholic church? It is the one True Church created by God, the necessary being. This statement will be proven in this paper below. Given the fact that there is a necessary being, why would such a powerful being reveal itself to mankind? Say someone were to create a robot that is able to think and function on its own. How would they tell their creation what is ultimately good and what is ultimately bad if they never speak to it? Without guidance, the robot may try to cure world hunger by thinning the population by a few million, as it is the logical conclusion. The same would go for mankind. Reasonable conclusions are not always so easy to see without assistance from God, the creator. It is reasonable to …show more content…

This was later disproved since the destruction of Jerusalem was only prophesied and not detailed. This destruction happened in 70 A.D. Therefore, the Gospels must have been written before this date and thus were written within living memory. Since the New testament had eyewitnesses, and was written in the living memory, there must be corroborating texts. Such corroborating texts include Flavius Josephus’, a Jewish historian, The Antiquities of the Jews supported the fact of Jesus historically. This text was written in the first century A.D. It contains passages that depict Jesus’ life, miracles, and crucifixion. There are no texts that contradict the New Testament. There were many people who would have wanted to prove that Jesus was lying. Despite this they were not able to disprove His miracles or His resurrection. If they had they would have recorded the fact that He was a fraud in many writings. The authors of the Gospel had nothing to gain by writing these texts. They did not gain fame, power, nor wealth by their writings. All except for John were killed. As such it would have been in their best interest to not record what had

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