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To: Forest Keeper
If I automatically thought that everything Calvin ever said was infallible, then he would be my pope. Even though you disagree, we don't do the pope "thing".

In a nutshell, without knowing it, you have framed St. Justin Popovich's Orthodox critique of protestantism. By your words, you show that you are your own pope. St. Justin pointed out the protestantism is not the negation of papism, but it's universalization. Instead of one infallible pope in Rome, there are millions, in Berlin, London, New York, . . . The Slavophile lay theologian Khomiakov made a similar point a century earlier.

3,109 posted on 12/29/2006 11:53:39 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David
In a nutshell, without knowing it, you have framed St. Justin Popovich's Orthodox critique of protestantism. By your words, you show that you are your own pope. St. Justin pointed out the protestantism is not the negation of papism, but it's universalization.

But that's only from the point of view that there MUST be a pope. Why do you bestow this requirement upon us, but then exempt yourselves from the same requirement? If we really wanted to use that term, then as near as I can figure, the RCC pope is in the form of one man. The Orthodox "pope" is in the form of The Church. The Reformed Christian "pope" is in the form of the scriptures. For discussion purposes, I could go that far.

3,704 posted on 01/03/2007 1:29:43 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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