To: A CA Guy
But lacking the Authority of the original church...So you are saying that the Catholic, being the original church, is the only source of authority for any church until Christs' return. Since every other church broke away and the Pope holds all the authority. They have none. Right?
No authority to heal in his name, no authority to cast out demons, no authority to perform miracles in his name. No authority at all. Certainly no authority to bring someone to Christ to be saved. And yet it happens daily. How can this be? All fraud? all Satan?
Can there be no other authority than the Pope? What do you do if he is corrupt? After all he is only human and with an unimaginable power. In 2000 years there have been no corrupt Popes? Not one? If the Pope be corrupt, then what authority does anyone have?
27 posted on
01/21/2004 8:48:19 PM PST by
Only1choice____Freedom
(The word system implies they have done something the same way at least twice)
To: Only1choice____Freedom
The Original Church had all the information, handed down history and was what was left by Christ to guide the people in it's established Authority.
Through sin, Martin Luther and others broke away to kind of do their own thing and started to bring God down to a human level as seen through their eyes in humanism.
Instead of proper teachings and interpretation, you get a lot of self taught mixed up people out there.
I said what makes them a valid Christian anyway despite their running around headless is their accepting of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior for their salvation.
Meanwhile they are lost flocks without a proper guide.
That is about it.
28 posted on
01/21/2004 9:09:24 PM PST by
A CA Guy
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