To the author: Thanks for taking exactly what the media says at face value, and then running off in every other direction.
Since the document wasn’t released in English, let’s wait until the official translation comes out.
BTW, I ran the document through Google Translate, and what the press is reporting is word for word out of it.
Finally, as a Baptist pastor, what does he care what the Pope says?
One might take it as the Rev. taking pot shots at a different denomination, but it sounds to me more like he cares about all Christendom, all believers. That means Roman Catholics or for that matter no name at all outside the church door.
I do hope that this was just another terminology gaffe. If God didn’t appoint church officials, then who did? And this could be asked across all denominations regardless of the systems they observe. Divine prerogatives are what make God worth following in the first place.
“...as a Baptist pastor, what does he care what the Pope says?...”
Post of the day - so true!! Why does any non Catholic care?
As far as I can tell he said ‘demiurge’ which got translated into english as ‘divine being.’ Now some translations into english are using ‘demiurge.’
So it actually might be a case where he actually was translated badly, unless demiurge means something different in Italian or Spanish.
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This pastor is very judgemental, isn’t he? He also tries to make it personal; without regret. I remind him that we should love our neighbor, and I’m sure Pope Francis will forgive this ad hominum attack...
Dominus vobiscum
Are you kidding me? Protestants are more obsessed with what is misreported in the press about about what Pope says than any other group on the planet.
Every time the secular press reports something, almost always incorrectly, because they truly have no idea about anything but at best drive by theology, as the Pope saying something that is a radical change to the church, its never been the case upon true understanding of Catholic Cannon. Yet protestants are almost always the folks who jump all over what is reported and ignorantly run with it, and bash the Pope/Church.
Its almost like they can’t let go of a division they chose to make wit the Church in the 1500’s and continue to make among themselves to this very day. Every time a protestant decides to reinterpret something they launch a new church.
Since the document wasn’t released in English, let’s wait until the official translation comes out.
The best proof that the Pope speaks the word of God is that there is so much argument of him not meaning what he said and we don't know what he said because of translation problems. Maybe we could consult some older and better manuscripts of what he said./ sarc
All non Catholics should care what the pope says.
After all, it is decreed by Catholic authorities that ALL Christians must accept their pope as the authority in their lives.
In September 1995, Pope John Paul II issued a statement claiming that recognition of the primacy of the Pope is essential for unity. An article in a 1995 Southern Cross read, “Pope: For unity, all churches must accept papal authority.”
For the Catholic Church, this unity does not only apply to the Reformation churches, but includes all the people of the worldBiblically aware born again Christians flatly reject the Catholic denomination's attempt to force them/us to be a part of their belief system.
And on the contrary, ALL churches...and all people...MUST accept the authority of Jesus. Over ANY man.
Having a personal relationship with Jesus trumps big time being a member of a religion such as Catholicism.