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John 14
15 If you love me, you will obey what I command.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—
17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
21 Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."

Argue what you will, but the Bible is straight forward. I am not an orphan because I reject the authority of the Pope. Jesus commanded that we try and convert the world. Nowhere does he command that we accept the Pope's proclamations as truth.

The Counselor that will be with us forever is the Holy Spirit, not the Pope. We do not follow Jesus' commands because the Pope tells us to, we follow Jesus' commands because they are Jesus' commands.

Argue what you will, but the Bible is straight forward.

Yep.........the great American tradition of custom-made churches is proof positive that you're right.

'Course, none of the storefront preachers can agree on what it means but that's probably because it's too straight forward and they're all searching for deeper meanings when there are none.

Deeper meanings and symbolism in Scripture? What an asinine thought!