"As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction." 2 Peter 3:16
I was stating fact, not debating an issue that has already been settled. The Christian church doesn’t recognize the RCC has the true church. That’s why they are called “Catholics”.
The Law of Congruency prohibits two systems from being equal. Therefore, by sheer logic, it is impossible for the RCC to be equal to Christianity.
Your verse is indeed applicable to this situation. It most definately is an issue of who is wresting the Scriptures to their destruction. On one hand, the RCC ignores the Canon and tacks onto doctrine that is contrary to Scripture. In fact, the very basis of authority the RCC claims in Matthew 16, isn’t an issue of authority: the context is answering the question of who Jesus is. It is Jesus that is the rock by which the church is built upon, not papel secession. Compare that with Ephesians 1-3, and it becomes painfully clear.
That is what happens when the plain, litteral sense of the Bible is ignored, and supplying a hidden meaning in order to shore up a man-centric religion.
In Christ.