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To: Mrs. Don-o
You have the insurmoutable disadvantage that you do not have the authority to define what is Scripture and what isn’t.

And you have the insurmountable disadvantage of having queers and pedophiles as your authority protected by the flimsy defense of Peter being the sole "rock" upon which the Church was built. Not to mention ignoring history as to when the Pope transitioned from merely being "first in honor" because Rome was the capital city to first in power.

399 posted on 12/20/2018 10:00:07 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
GPH, I thank you for this communication. I invite you to try a wider lens in your camera of history.

1) When talking about the canon of Scripture, veering straight off-topic and throwing the bloody chum about queers and pedophiles into the sea is shark-bait, not advancing the conversation.

People who betray Catholic faith and morals, do damnable things. How is that new, or even relevant? The 46 books of the OT show God's Chosen People with regular frequency abandoning the Lord and whoring after World, the Flesh and the Devil. That does not mean that God's Prophets were no longer God's Prophets, nor that God's Laws were no longer God's Laws.

What it means is that, then as now, when you're do God's will you're blameless, and when you don't, you're not.

In other words, the betrayers of the Church are not "the Church," and the infidelity of those who betray the Church does not cancel out God's fidelity. The Church is not the Mystical Body of Francisco Coccopalmerio or Ted McCarrick or Jorge Bergoglio, it's the Mystical Body of Christ.

2) Rome was not the "capital" of the Church because it was the capital of the Empire. Rome, a crumbling city even by the third century of the Church's existence, lost its political hegemony very early indeed, when the brilliant city of Constantinople was made capital in the East, followed quickly by he sacking of Rome by barbarians in the West.

It was not renowned as the greatest city. Even Alexandria surpassed it. I was renowned because it was the city where SS Peter and Paul were martyred, Peter being at that time Bishop of Rome. (He had previously been Bishop of Antioch.)

The formal structures for carrying on St. Peter's ministry have shifted significantly over the centuries, and his See has been occupied at times both by saints and scalawags.

This does not negate the precious promises of Christ, in Whom I put my trust, that He would be with us always. He is God, and can neither deceive, nor be deceived.

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400 posted on 12/21/2018 9:39:17 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (What does the LORD require of you: to act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God)
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