No, of course not. The RC crowd is not that sophisticated. I told vladimir998 there was no support for a "pope" in Scripture. Instead of replying, "Yes, here it is in II Hesitations 5:2" (had to make up a book since it does not exist anyway), he replied "Sure there is. Even some Protestants believe there is..." Yada, yada. And left the topic to go on about rantings of "bigots".
I simply pointed out, that...
"No, there isn't or instead of a protracted pile of mush, you would have cited book, chapter and verse proving that the Scriptures say, "You should have a pope based in Rome."
If that is too hard to follow, let it go. But, the question is now out there, "Where in the Scripture (that your gang purports to have provided) does it say there will be a pope in Rome?"
And the methods Rome has devised to attempt to provide salvation to the sheeple are ineffective and fraudulent. Paul set out the Gospel clearly in the letter to the Romans and it is at odds with Rome's. The pope problem is just one among many. We see that, however, as Paul wins, Rome loses. I suppose we will find out when this is all over who did not have eyes to see or ears to hear.
I’m sorry. Now you seem to have added gratuitous rudeness to self-contradiction and unjustified allegations.
You see, in my point of view these things are hard to talk about. There is no need to make conversation harder. So I try to be clear and I try to take others at their word. There was no question. There was just an emphatic set of charges without any justification for the charges, much less the emphasis with which they were hurled. They seemed, in fact, ignorant charges.
I have seen this kind of thing too many times. You have already said you are not here for a discussion, but to warn others way from us. Now, because I believed your own account of your behavior, I am a member of an unsophisticated crowd.
And after this introduction, after mocking us for taking you at your own word, you change that word and say you want to engage in conversation, you want your questions addressed.
All right, I’ll say this: It is not at all difficult to find the Scriptural justification for the Papacy, not for those to whom Truth is more important than cruelty, lies, and the thrill of controlling others. You will certainly be able to find the arguments without the help of any unsophisticated people.