[ebb tide]

You, yourself, referenced an article that I had posted that was critical of this papacy.

So who’s “blindly obediet”? There have been good popes (many of them saints) and there have been bad popes. This one is the worst (in my opinion), so far, but I’m not jumping off the ark. After all, it’s the only one.

[Nevadan]

ebb tide, I am glad and relieved to know that you are not blindly obedient to the current pope and his hierarchy. Thank you for posting articles that examine and question the pronouncements, actions, and dare I say, his infallibility? It still begs the question why you find that Martin Luther was wrong in not blindly following the pronouncements, actions, and infallibility of the pope of his day. You acknowledge that the Church has had good popes and bad popes. Was that pope of Martin Luther’s time a godly pope by your standards? Should Martin Luther have shut up and gone along with the program, endorsed the practices of selling indulgences for the remission of sin or to decrease time in purgatory? Did the Pope and the Church have the right from God to sell these indulgences? Who was being heretical here? Martin Luther or the Pope?

[Elsie]

After all, it’s the only one.

OH?

I've read; in a couple of places in the Bible; showing this very same attitude.

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1 Kings 19:13-18

 

Then a voice said to him, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’

 

He replied, ‘I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.’

 

The Lord said to him, ‘Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet. Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu.

 

Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel – all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.’

 

 

 

Romans 11:2-6