“I value the Scriptures alone when dividing truth.”
I...I...I...I.... This is why there is so much error. Some can’t grasp One Church or One Pope...but they are fine with 100 Million Popes.
Nonsensical. Authority is not my schtick, it is what Jesus gave to some. “...the power to loose and bind...”, from Jesus Christ himself.
>>>I...I...I...I.... This is why there is so much error. Some can’t grasp One Church or One Pope...but they are fine with 100 Million Popes.
Nonsensical. Authority is not my schtick, it is what Jesus gave to some. “...the power to loose and bind...”, from Jesus Christ himself.<<<
What I meant by schtick is that RCs use this supposed authority of their church as a battering ram against non-RCs, and as a slippery excuse for not believing what Scripture says.
My authority is the same as any Christian's. Previously I said to you:
I liken myself to the black sheep of Lk.9.49-50. He was not one of the twelve or the seventy-two, so the disciples attempted to stop him. His "authority" was that he acted in Christ's name. Christ answered his disciples:
“Do not stop him,” Jesus said, “for whoever is not against you is for you.”
You seem to have missed that acting in the name of Christ is to act as one with the authority of Christ. That is why Christ saw him as one of His own, even though he was not of the chosen few. I, nor any other Christian, needs some supposed authority of the RC church to direct our beliefs. That authority is within acting in the name of Christ - belief in His death and resurrection for the mercy and grace of salvation. If it were not so, Christ would not have blessed the black sheep's actions.
In effect, you act on an inferior (false) supposed authority of the Church, while I act within the superior (real) authority of the name of Christ.
But salvation isn't about one church or one pope.
It's about ONE Savior.