[metmom]

St. Paul is writing about the Catholic Church,

FOTFLOL!!!

Oh he is not!!!

He's talking to the true church, the body of believers who is baptized into Christ by the Holy Spirit through faith in Christ.

They were not followers of Peter. That was laid to rest in the first chapter of the book.

[rzman21]

He’s talking to the true church, the body of believers who is baptized into Christ by the Holy Spirit through faith in Christ.

>>Nice 16th century deconstruction of St. Paul. The only people in the first century who were baptized into faith in Jesus Christ were Catholics as St. Ignatius of Antioch attests.

What does St. Peter have to do with your argument?

[smvoice]

mm, I saw your big, bold FOTFLOL!!! and decided to read the post that was cracking you up. It HAD to be the funniest post ever conceived on FR for it to make you laugh that hard. I read it...and you're right. FOTFLOL!!! Paul writing to the Catholic Church...bwhahahaha!!!!

Paul wrote ABOUT the Catholic Church, not TO the Catholic Church. Starting with this: 2 Cor. warning that there are "many which corrupt the Word of God." He wrote many things about the Catholic Church, but one of my favorite is: well, I can't choose a favorite, They are ALL favorite warnings against false teachers, deceivers, another Jesus, another gospel, another spirit, another doctrine, etc.

Paul writing to the Catholic Church...lol!

[rzman21]

St. Ignatius of Antioch Epistle to the Smyrneans AD 105 CHAPTER 8 8:1 But avoid divisions, as being the beginning of evils. Do ye all follow the bishop, as Jesus Christ doth the Father; and follow the presbyters as the apostles; and have respect unto the deacons as unto the commandment of God. Let no one, apart from the bishop, do any of the things that appertain unto the church. Let that eucharist alone be considered valid which is celebrated in the presence of the bishop, or of him to whom he shall have entrusted it. 8:2 Wherever the bishop appear, there let the multitude be; even as wherever Christ Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church. It is not lawful either to baptize, or to hold a love-feast without the consent of the bishop; but whatsoever he shall approve of, that also is well pleasing unto God, to the end that whatever is done may be safe and sure.

VIII 1. Πάντες τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ ἀκολουθεῖτε, ὡς Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς τῷ πατρί, καὶ τῷ πρεσβυτερἰῳ ὡς τοῖς ἀποστόλοις. τοὺς δὲ διακόνους ἐντρέπεσθε ὡς θεοῦ ἐντολήν. μηδεὶς χωρὶς τοῦ ἐπισκόπου τι πρασσέτω τῶν ἀνηκόντων εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν. ἐκείνη βεβαία εὐχαριστία ἡγείσθω, ἡ ὑπὸ ἐπίσοπον οὖσα ἢ ᾧ ἂν αὐτὸς ἐπιτρέψῃ. 2. ὅπου ἂν φανῇ ὁ ἐπίσκοπος, ἐκεῖ τὸ πλῆθος ἤτω, ὥσπερ ὅπου ἂν ῇ Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, ἐκεῖ ἡ

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