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There Is No Salvation "BEYOND" the Church of Christ Was there salvation outside of the ark? Was there salvation outside the nation of Israel? Will there be salvation outside the church of Christ? The answer to all of the questions, per the Bible, is actually "no".    Before your emotions obtain the best of you, calm yourself down and consider two preliminary points; (1) I grew up in one of the largest, main-stream denominations in America - not in the church of Christ, so I can speak directly to this problem. What I'm about to share with you comes from years of personal study, debating, argumentation, and absolute have a problem with idea that salvation is in mere one church. (2) Jesus said in Matthew 22:29, "Ye do err, being unsure of the scriptures, nor the power of God." Many "religious" folks have formed their ideas about salvation on their own opinions, pre-conceptions, and statements that they've heard over and over since they've been children (rather than the Bible).    The Bible says that there surely is no salvation found outside of the church of Christ. The Apostle Paul said in Colossians 1:18 that Jesus may be the head of the body, the church. The body and the church are one in exactly the same. Paul told the Ephesians, in Ephesians 5:25, "...even while Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for this." The church is singular around, and Jesus gave Himself for the church. In Ephesians 5:23, Paul said, "...even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of your body." For an individual to say they can be saved without being an associate of the church of Christ reveals their ignorance of the Scripture, as the Apostle Paul says that Christ may be the "saviour" of the body, and the body is the church.    How many "churches" was Paul talking about? Now watch this; the same Paul told the Ephesians, in 4:4, that there is one body. If hispani church near me may be the church, as Paul stated, and, as he also stated, that there surely is only one body, then there is only one church. A kid can understand why simple Bible teaching.    Although, this begs the question, "Which church is the one church?" Well, let's work with a simple example. Martin Luther was a fine man with the noble desire to get back to the Bible. After Luther's death, his follower's established the denomination bearing his name; the Lutheran Church. Now, was iglesia sana doctrina en houston that Paul spoke of in his epistles? How could it possibly be - the Lutheran Church didn't exist when Paul wrote his epistle. In iglesia en houston , the Lutheran Church was established some 1500 years after Paul spoke his inspired words; therefore, it isn't logical, reasonable, or biblical to summarize that the Lutheran Church is the one church of the Bible, because it simply did not exist at that time (the first century)!

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