Hmm....
So “I didn’t see no pope mentioned in there, neither...” is penetrating insight, but my pointing out THE universally held Christian doctrine isn’t “in there, neither” is “ “poor analogy”, “misplaced analogy”, “inappropriate analogy”, “analogy that exists only in the fever-swamps of the proponent’s mind”, etc.”
How’s that work?
>> How’s that work?
Simple!
The subject of the argument is “Jesus Direct Flight”, or “Jesus, with a required stopover in Popeville”. Right?
The Trinity, baptism, Jonah, the Creation, and your kitchen sink, among many other things, aren’t covered in John 15, either... but so what? They’re not germane to the argument
The guy in the funny hat IS germane, and HE is not mentioned as a gatekeeper to my Friend JESUS. Point stands.