[Rokke]

"Many 'pastors' or 'televesion pastors' will quote from one passage (say, "thou shalt not call any manner Father") and use that to lambast the church."

Yet you claim a single passage (Matthew 16:18) is significant enough to prove Christ selected Peter to be the first "pope" and thus founded an unbroken chain of church leaders leading to today's Pope. And that unbroken chain entitles you to declare the Catholic church the only "true" church, thus lambasting every church and believer who isn't Catholic. Can you understand how your two positions can be viewed as hypocritical?

[Cronos]

Yet you claim a single passage (Matthew 16:18) is significant enough to prove Christ selected Peter to be the first "pope" and thus founded an unbroken chain of church leaders leading to today's Pope. And that unbroken chain entitles you to declare the Catholic church the only "true" church, thus lambasting every church and believer who isn't Catholic. Can you understand how your two positions can be viewed as hypocritical?

Ah, but that's where you are mistaken --- as I've repeated through this post, the unbroken chain of Popes is not the basis on which we state that we are God's Church -- it's the reason we state for the Pope being the leader of the Church. Two separate issues. Church TEACHINGS which are Christ's teachings are what defines the Church as Holy. Church History and teachings are what define it as Apostolic