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To: Dutchboy88

You wrote:

“For example, there is no support for a “pope”.”

Sure there is. Even some Protestants believe there is - some Anglicans and Lutherans, for instance.

“Nonewhatsoever. The gang from Rome cooked this preposterous charade up to grasp power over the sheeple.”

That’s logically impossible. If it was “cooked” up by a group from Rome then there would be no reason to expect to find belief in the papacy outside of Rome or believed by even Rome’s enemies - and yet that’s the case.

“No one has ever found a single passage of Scripture that supports even the remotest possibility of the monstrosity that the RCC has become.”

Actually there’s evidence for the papacy, but there’s no evidence that the Catholic Church is a monstosity except in the twisted rantings of bigots.

“There were separate churches everywhere in the first century, all with their own teachers-elders.”

No. They formed ONE Church. That’s why an Apostle like Paul could enjoy communion with one after the other and they taught and believed the same doctrine and were expected to do so. They certainly had their own leaders - just as diocese have their own bishops to this day. But it was ONE Church.

” The independence of these congregations allowed for safeguards not available to the central government of the gigantus that Rome has forced upon the world.”

The Church forced nothing. Christ sent the Church.


43 posted on 12/07/2009 11:20:24 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998
“For example, there is no support for a “pope”.” Sure there is. Even some Protestants believe there is - some Anglicans and Lutherans, for instance.

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."

Well, (tap, tap, tap)...

45 posted on 12/07/2009 11:30:18 AM PST by Dutchboy88
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