Posted on 01/06/2013 3:56:49 PM PST by NYer
The popes have had their share of bad people. Leo X cared more about hunting than about the Gospel. That does not ipso facto discredit the office. Not every president is a Washington.
I think you meant to type "...no REAL catholic..." For there are PLENTY of 'doubts' among the millions of pew warmers.
He was wrong in his behavior.
glad you are so sure of yourself
.....Or even around Advent/Christmas seasons when it is focused on the Church of the Nativity in Bethelehiem and there is seen from time to time fights over WHO gets to sweep what part of the floor before the big Christmas liturgies.
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
“PETER is NOWHERE called the Apostle to the Gentiles! This precludes him from going to Rome to become the head of a Gentile community”
ridiculous, you are being silly.
Why do you use the word attack? Seldom do I see “attacking” and when it happens the post is quickly pulled. Paul commended the Bereans for “checking the scriptures daily to see if these things be true”. In Revelation we see that the churches were admonished to correct error that had crept in. Christ even admonished people to “come out of her” with regard to one of the churches who obviously had strayed from the path. I always think of the word “tolerance” when in discussions like this.
Tolerance: The last and only virtue of the completely immoral society.
If we tolerate error in the church we will end up totally in error.
Ha ha!
Blame it on Luther!
There were THOUSANDS of 'interpretations' WAY before then. Ever heard of all the councils and meetings to DECIDE whose 'interpretation' of 'scripture' was going to prevail?
UNITY my butt!
Now ya got it right! At least that is the way I see it and the way it should be. If there are those who have other feelings as they post I would suggest they need to examine their own motives.
But then again, at the Church of the Nativity, the fights there tend to take place among the Orthodox just before their Christmas. The Catholics have a seperate chapel.
A little HERE; a little THERE... all of a sudden; you’ve GOT it!
>>All that is left is to TELL about it.<<
Amen, amen and amen! There is no “stand in” for Christ, no weekly “sacrifice” of Christ and no additional “payment” need be made. The price has been paid and election is sure.
I think you miss the significance of the location of where this all took place, which was up at Banias in the the Golan at a spring from which one branch of the Jordan flows, known as the Gates of Hades, long a site of pagan worship. And he seems to be punning on Simon’s name. Given Peter’s mercurial behavior, sometimes it seems that the nickname is “ironical,” For he almost immediately has to slap Peter around verbally.
“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Who says he was?
Glad of that, because SCRIPTURE says...
Revelation 21:25If they ain't shut; there's no need to guard them...On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.
That’s a rather empty statement without scripture to backup any proof. Where is the scriptural proof that Peter was the apostle to the Gentiles or that he "establlished" the church in Rome?
Uh...
This ain't found in 'scripture'; either...
So?
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