[Cronos]

So you do understand the danger of a works based faith? You do understand the arrogance of a clergy that insists on being called "Father" and parades around in fine garments.

Evidently you've never heard of the vows of the religious like the Jesuits who own only their Bible, their sandals and the clothes on their back. Or the poor friars? Or the monks who wear camels hair robes? What you talk about are caricatures from a Protestant book on "popery". What you say about the Apostolic Church being a "works based faith" is classic Protestant over-simplification. The Church does not say that only through your deeds can you be saved. it does NOT deny God's grace.

[gscc]

And do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called 'teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you will be your servant. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

"Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them 'Rabbi.'