“The early Church and today’s Catholic empire are two entirely different animals”.
The early protestants and today’s protestants are
entirely different animals. The early protestants were basically still Catholic in their worship, from vestments to liturgy. Today’s protestants have no liturgy to speak of, wear no vestments, and have absolutely no authority, other than themselves.
The sacraments of the Catholic Church have been the same for thousands of years. Try learning some history of Christianity before you venture off into something you know nothing about, which is Catholicism.
Which was ‘a copy’ of the municipalities of Rome at that time. From the architecture of their buildings to the promenade of priests to the alter...all a copy of the “royalty” of Rome....which Jesus never established.
I never knew "vestments" were so important. I thought belief in and obedience to Him trumped fancy dress.
You never answered the question about whether Peter wore flashy pope-robes and a big hat. How about living in palatial rooms with gold fixtures? Is that how Jesus lived on Earth? Why doesn't the ranking Catholic live as our Lord demonstrated?
You said Catholicism was “the Church established by Jesus through Peter.” If this were true then the logical conclusion is that Church has gone far astray.
That would mean they had sacraments centuries before they even existed, the Catholic Church is quite a few hundred year shy of even 2k years old.
Today’s protestants have no liturgy to speak of, wear no vestments, and have absolutely no authority, other than themselves.
No, they do not take on the trappings of the Pharisees.
Protestants, as well as other non-Catholic Religion Christians--you are right--they have no authority. All authority belongs and comes from Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Works quite well.
God is supreme, not a pope.
Didn't think so.
Surely they didn't wear those fish hats copied from the priests to the fish god Dagon that Catholic priests wear did they?
James 2:1-3
My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.
For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes, and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, "You sit here in a good place," and you say to the poor man, "You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool..."