It sounded to me like you were making an equivalence between Baptists and Catholics, as in, if we get a bad pastor, it doesn’t invalidate the church, thus Catholics can have a bad pope without invalidating their church. If I misunderstood you on that, I’m sorry.
But if I did understand you correctly, that’s a poor argument for a bad pope. The structure is different. Baptists are not claiming to have a human “Vicar of Christ.” Catholics do make that claim. We’re not claiming to be better than y’all. We just don’t have to back up the claim that you do have to back up. Our Vicar of Christ really is the Holy Spirit, and He is guaranteed to be sinless, no matter how badly any one of us non-Vicars messes up.
It’s a big difference. I’m sorry it offends you, but it’s what Scripture teaches, so how can we dissent from it without sinning?
Peace,
SR
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