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To: Havoc
Ok, so you reject the modern Western understanding of the Papacy and some of the historical claims on which it is based. So do I.

Why then aren't your Orthodox? Will you claim St. Peter was never in Antioch? or that he was never Bishop of Antioch? Will you claim that St. James was never in Jerusalem? or that he was never Bishop of Jerusalem? that St. Mark never went to Alexandria to take the episcopate of that city? that St. Timothy was not Bishop of Crete?

Do you deny the succession of bishops in right line from those established by the Apostles who evangelized the churches of Corinth, Colossae, Ephesus, Laodicea,... (fill in every local Church mentioned in the New Testament save Rome) down to today?

427 posted on 10/14/2001 8:48:00 PM PDT by The_Reader_David
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To: The_Reader_David
Why then aren't your Orthodox? Will you claim St. Peter was never in Antioch? or that he was never Bishop of Antioch? Will you claim that St. James was never in Jerusalem? or that he was never Bishop of Jerusalem? that St. Mark never went to Alexandria to take the episcopate of that city? that St. Timothy was not Bishop of Crete? Do you deny the succession of bishops in right line from those established by the Apostles who evangelized the churches of Corinth, Colossae, Ephesus, Laodicea,... (fill in every local Church mentioned in the New Testament save Rome) down to today?

Ya'll don't buy into the primacy issue. You just buy most of their doctrine & dogma. You reject the trivial and hold onto the really bad stuff. That's like the difference between two guys hiring twin Hookers - dressed the same except that one has a barrett in her hair and the other doesn't..

452 posted on 10/15/2001 6:10:11 AM PDT by Havoc
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