The Childers-Childers Debate
A Virtual Cross-Time Debate Between Jeff Childers 1996 and Jeff Childers 1998 About the Identity of the New Testament Church
1998 First Question
(Resolved: The Church founded by Jesus Christ is the Holy Roman Catholic Church, not the Protestant denomination, the Church of Christ.)
My opponent has expressed the opinion that the Church can and has fallen away from earthly existence, and that the Church can and has taught error. In his first letter to Timothy, St. Paul gives a much more confident view of the Church's reliability:
"But if I should be delayed, you know how you should behave in the household of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of truth." (1 Tim. 3:15)
I would like my opponent to comment on how this passage relates to the apostasy of the Church.