[highlander_UW]

I appreciate your cut and paste, but it doesn't address the issue that was being discussed, which was the suggestion that salvation is dependent upon believing bishops and the like....that is not scriptural.

[Petrosius]

I appreciate your cut and paste, but it doesn't address the issue that was being discussed, which was the suggestion that salvation is dependent upon believing bishops and the like....that is not scriptural.

Check again. Our Lord says that those who reject those he sends reject him. Those he send are the apostles. The office of the apostles continues after their death in those we now call bishops.

Also, the passages on the Eucharist show the need to eat his flesh and drink his blood as he latter instituted under the forms of bread and wine at the Last Supper; a very Catholic teaching.