I though jonrick46 (post 15) had something going there in his thoughts on the process as well.
There is a driving desire in humanity to get back to the garden of Eden, and that is all well and good.
However, when man strives for the goal without consulting God, who will require the belief in His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, and repentance of sin and conversion to the heart of Christ, then he seeks a solely natural path where he tries to get there on his own.
It is like if a son wants to be a baseball player but refuses his father’s advice to practice.
“Why can’t I just buy a baseball uniform and join the team? I want to hit home runs and steal bases and catch fly balls with my uniform on. I don’t want to practice, I just want to be a star.”
That is why, sadly, this is an antipope, which is to say he isn’t an authentic pope. He teaches heresy like other recent popes, only moreso. We must pray that God will forgive us and send us again an authentic pope, such as Pope Pius X, and then revere that pope and look to hear Christ through him as we did popes in the past.
I will require that we deserve such a pope, so we must REPENT AND BELIEVE the Good News and sin no more.
“...I will require...”
TYPO alert:
should read
“It will require that we deserve such a pope, so we must REPENT AND BELIEVE the Good News and sin no more.”
Also BELIEVE and REPENT as well.
“We must pray that God will forgive us and send us again an authentic pope, such as Pope Pius X, and then revere that pope and look to hear Christ through him as we did popes in the past.”
Or just scratch all that and call on the name of the Lord YOURSELVES, by faith. Like Israel of old, do we want a king to rule over us? God was not pleased. He provided his SON so we could have a relationship with HIM. Yes, we ought ask forgiveness for EVER wanting a mediator between ourselves and God other than Jesus, There is no other, and anyone pretending to be one will pay the penalty!
There is not one Apostle who exalted themselves over the world. Even Peter agreed to go to the Jews and Paul to the Gentiles (probably most on this forum). Even there the supposed first pope shames the rest through humility.
“It will require that we deserve such a pope, so we must REPENT AND BELIEVE the Good News and sin no more.”
That puts one the province of luck, not faith. Deserve? HELL is what we DESERVE. No, no no. We want a free gift.
“Sin no more”? No one has pulled that one off, including the woman caught in adultery. If we could Jesus died in VAIN. Read the letters of Paul, they’re awesome gifts from God where the damnable works religion that poisons the free gift of God in Christ is given its fitting epitaph!