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To: CynicalBear

Find me a reputable professional historian who will go on record saying that the first eight or so Popes were not martyred. Jack Chick does not count as a reputable professional historian.


153 posted on 01/20/2015 1:26:39 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan; metmom
First of all you would have to identify the "first eight or so Popes". Do a little history on the title of pope given and you will not find a single "pope" at the head of the "Catholic Church" until the 6th century. From the 3rd to the 6th century is was used refer to all bishops. ["Pope", Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3].

It's nothing but Catholic fiction to state that there is a line of single popes leading back to Peter.

164 posted on 01/20/2015 2:59:43 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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