Posted on 05/06/2015 3:22:31 PM PDT by RnMomof7
So glad you are starting to realize that about your Roman Catholic religion's so-called "history". Keep up the good work, RnMomof7, some of it is actually breaking through the hardened hearts! ☺
The author needs to check the list, because by the end of the 300s (4th century) history shows that there were already 39 Popes.
You're sure about that? Do you have an "every" category now for Catholics?
I think your post is false.
You are talking about the poster, right?
HAHAHAHA! Now that's exactly right! I would have never written it so perfectly, but you are right on that - exceedingly dry and absurdly long... 'almost torturous' would seem to be the guideline.
((Where did Jesus make bishops?**
Paul ordained Bishops. Have you read 1 and 2 Timothy lately.
Christ ordained the apostles by breathing on them and giving them the power to forgive and bind sins.
JOHN 20
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19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."
20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.
21 Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you."
22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
I found the article instructive.
Remember, it was RELIGIOUS men that clashed with Jesus because they were afraid of Him taking their place away. They should have joined John the Baptist in saying “He must become greater, I must become less important.”
“In holy things may be unholy greed”George MacDonald
The perks of religious office spoil many a man, and it spans the entire spectrum of Christendom. Catholics may have a long resume of shifty leaders, but so did Israel and so does everyone else.
This is a core human nature problem.
From http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20non-existent%20early%20papacy:
Nothing unique or enduring about that sort of breath, right? I mean, nothing passed down to us from Adam so the Apostles likewise had nothing they could and did pass down through those they anointed to take their place.
You so silly.
Yes
44:1 Our Apostles, too, by the instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ, knew that strife would arise concerning the dignity of a bishop;1 Clem 44 (tr. Charles H. Hoole, 1885).44:2 and on this account, having received perfect foreknowledge, they appointed the above-mentioned as bishops and deacons: and then gave a rule of succession, in order that, when they had fallen asleep, other men, who had been approved, might succeed to their ministry.
44:3 Those who were thus appointed by them, or afterwards by other men of good repute, with the consent of the whole Church, who have blamelessly ministered to the flock of Christ with humility, quietly, and without illiberality, and who for a long time have obtained a good report from all, these, we think, have been unjustly deposed from the ministry.
44:4 For it will be no small sin in us if we depose from the office of bishop those who blamelessly and piously have made the offerings.
44:5 Happy are the presbyters who finished their course before, and died in mature age after they had borne fruit; for they do not fear lest any one should remove them from the place appointed for them.
44:6 For we see that ye have removed some men of honest conversation from the ministry, which had been blamelessly and honourably performed by them.
There is no such office of priest in the New Testament church other than Christ as the High Priest and all believers as priests.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.' |
Really???
Pope Stephen VI (896897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (10321044, 1045, 10471048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (12941303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (13781389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (14921503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (15131521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (15231534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
And not until Constantine that all authority was centralized in Rome.
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