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The Pope is an International Socialist and congregent of the Church of CAGW.
Here’s an idea. Insert wedges between the various Christian denominations. That way it’ll be even easier for the radical muslims to take over.
Always remember that it was Yashua that brought Christianity to the world. A Jew no less.
I didn’t forget you at Mass todat in my prayers, Mon.
“The Protestant’s Dilemma”??
What about the Catholic’s Dilemmas?
I don’t consider myself a Protestant in the terms Catholics use. I’m Baptist. hee hee hee
Get a life.
The Problem of the Anti-Popes. Another riddle of Roman Catholicism is the scandalous specter of having more than one infallible pope at the same time—a pope and an anti-pope. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church says “there have been about thirty-five anti-popes in the history of the Church.” How can there be two infallible and opposing popes at the same time? Which is the true pope? Since there is no infallible list of popes or even an infallible way to determine who is the infallible pope, the system has a serious logical problem. Further, this difficulty has had several actual historical manifestations which bring into focus the whole question of an infallible pope. Geisler, N. L., and MacKenzie, R. E. (1995). Roman Catholics and Evangelicals: agreements and differences (p. 217). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
Notable statement.
The strongest arguments against a monarchical papacy going back to St. Peter are ones that no protestant (or “Biblical Christian” or whatever self-descriptor any given Western non-papist prefers) would make:
First, during the persecutions, there was no way for the Church of Rome to exercise any sort of primacy over the other local churches, and many doctrinal matters — as for instance the suppression of the adoptionist heresy of Paul of Samosata — were handled without reference to Rome by local churches.
Second the Epistle of St. Ignatius of Antioch (third bishop of Antioch in succession from St. Peter, who undoubtedly was the first bishop of Antioch — even the Latins admit this) to the Smyranean, the first place where the work katholike (catholic) is applied to the Church, sets for the principle of unity of the Church as the local bishop, not the Bishop of Rome.
And, finally, once the persecutions ended, the canon of the Council of Nicaea dealing with papal primacy (and there is one) makes clear that it is a local primacy over the nearby churches in Italy by drawing analogy the primacy exercised by Alexandria over nearby churches in Egypt — this canon makes no sense whatsoever if the ancient Church had held anything like the modern Latin doctrine of universal papal primacy.