[Missey_Lucy_Goosey]

What do you mean when you say it is not represented by the Church of Rome?

I mean exactly what I said.

I believe the Church is catholic, ie-katholikos, in the original meaning of the term when first used, which referred to all genuine believers in Christ comprising the universal(catholic) church, which is not represented by the church of Rome, nor the pope or the Roman magesterium.

I would take that to mean that you are dissing Roman Catholics. Is that true?

I'm stating a plain fact.

Better study up on your historical Bible passages!

I have, and there is nothing whatsoever that extends any Roman papal primacy in the slightest.

[Salvation]

Sometimes, it seems that the Bible is not read literally, but only the selective passages that Protestants want to quote. In this passage Christ clearly denotes Peter as the head of his Church on earth. He also establishes the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Matthew 16: 13-19 

 

13

⁸ When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi ⁹ he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"

14

They replied, "Some say John the Baptist, ¹⁰ others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."

15

He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

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¹¹ Simon Peter said in reply, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God."

17

Jesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood ¹² has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.

18

And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, ¹³ and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.

19

I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. ¹⁴ Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."