Another example of “The Church” . What an awful joke. You can be a Christ believing, born again Christian without a pope. Fact!!!
Some perspective might be indulged in to see how things came to this juncture.
Looks to me like there has been a theory going for a long time that through “morality” practitioners of any religion might be saved... almost 180 degrees from the point where official Catholicism was highly allergic even to the split Orthodox, let alone the newer Protestants.
As a Wascally Evangelical I say the focus has been in the wrong place. If personal salvation is sought from the actual personal God it is granted. It doesn’t matter whether, as you do so, you are worshiping in a building where the sign outside says Baptist or Catholic or Lutheran or Orthodox... those are man’s names. The bible is clear about that. But “morality” is a maddeningly relative thing. There are a lot of “moral” atheists... their morality is going, as it were, on autopilot. But God did not want souls on autopilot! He wanted to be their pilot! Moral autopilot won’t get you to glory.
-— You can be a Christ believing, born again Christian without a pope. Fact!!! -—
If you’ve been baptized, you’re correct.
But to be a full member of Christ’s Church, you must accept Her Teaching regarding the pope. (See tagline).
“If he will not listen to the Church, treat him as a pagan or tax collector.” —Jesus