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""For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,..." Why, if we have a Heavenly Father, do we need a human who stands between us a God, and directs us to call him father? Why is it we must make confession to a priest when it is Jesus Christ who is our mediator?"

Here is precisely where the error begins with Rome. The screaming message of rescue from the Apostles that men now have direct access to God through the ONE MEDIATOR the Man-Messiah (God incarnate) Jesus has escaped the notice of Rome. They will not attend to the Book they claim to have given the world. Instead, they crave a Vicar of Christ, the substitute for Jesus, on earth.

Rome needs sacerdotalism to provide absolution, to transubstantiate regular bread and wine into "the real body & blood", to grant indulgences, to pronounce the other six required sacraments, to inflict purgatory, to promote mariolatry, and a hundred other unbiblical/ungodly doctrines. They need to control their sheeple.

But you, my FRiend, have hit the thumb on the nail. We don't need all of this baggage. And, its promotion is not just innocuous blather (it certainly is blather), but it is a blasphemous degradation of the pure, holy sacrifice provided once for all to those called out.