[daniel1212]

Even in this Easter season, there are those who would nervously employ the secular convention of saying that they want Christ but not his Church, and that they can confess their sins to God without confessing to a priest. This ignores what Jesus did when he rose from the dead: he constructed the Church through his teaching during the forty days before the Ascension, and the first thing he did when he appeared to the apostles was to give them authority to forgive sins in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Which is another example of typical extrapolative eisegesis, anachronistically reading NT presbuteros distinctively being titled "priest" (“hiereus”), which is nowhere seen in the NT, nor that of the basis for it, that their primary and unique function was that of sacrificing transubstantiated flesh and blood as a sin offering, to be consumed to obtain spiritual life.

In addiction, the power of binding and loosing was not a new function, but one which was given to the OT magisterium, and while the spiritual (nor only judicial) aspect of that was realized more fully in the NT (and God has regard to intercessory prayer, which can obtain mercy in the case of chastisement for sin) primarily thru presbuteros (not hiereus), yet this spiritual power is also provided for all righteous believers. (Mt. 18:19,20; Ja. 5:16-18))

[smvoice]

Does the RCC believe that when Christ returns Rome will be the place where His feet will touch down first?

[NKP_Vet]

Who is Father Charles Rutler? Just another former protestant, with a genius IQ I might add, who converted to the One, True Faith. I’ll put his knowledge of scripture up against anyone on FR.