[Iscool]

As for your your contention with respect to 1 Cor 4, I found it useful to read more context than the verse you centered on to attack the Catholic teaching on Mary, who is forever the blessed virgin of Israel and mother of God with us, the LORD Jesus Christ. The context of 1 Cor 1 shows Paul was upholding one holy catholic apostolic church and the contentions were unscriptural. Your use of 1 Cor 4 seems quite out of place, to say the least.

The contentions are clear since Paul spelled them out...And then comparing scripture with scripture, the conversation unfolds...

1Co_1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

1Co 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

The contentions were over who had the most authority...Who was the holiest...

And Paul says, 'stick with the scriptures'...If one was over the other, or higher in rank than another, God would have told you in the scriptures...Do not go above what is written in the scriptures...Whether it be Peter, Paul or Mary...Pretty simple stuff there...And Paul say when you do this, it is carnal...

[metmom]

That verse so condemns Catholicism, which follows Cephas (Peter).

Peter is our first pope. You guys follow Luther. Nyah, nyah,....

[af_vet_1981]

The contentions were over who had the most authority... splitting into separate groups by following men (think Luther and Calvin) which then establish different denominations and sects (which cannot agree with themselves and are always separating and splitting) to try to divide the holy catholic apostolic church, which is the body of Christ. Somehow this escapes you.

[Elsie]

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