I don't have to defend the truth which has been taught for 2,015 years....if you want to deny it, it is up to you to prove why it is wrong and try to explain why some of the greatest minds in human history disagree with you....and Luther, and Calvin, and HenryVIII, and Wesley, and Zwingley, and Knox, and Smyth, and Fox, and London, andCampbells, and Baker-eddy and myriad of others ALL of who think that they are right....
And some of the greatest minds in human history have been wrong, as they surely are here, disagreeing with the mind of Almighty God in Scripture, and perpetuating error thru traditions of men.
and myriad of others ALL of who think that they are right....
As does Rome, who is her own autocratic authority, while her own basis for that, that of the premise of perpetual ensured magisterial infallibility, is unScriptural, and unseen and unnecessary in the life of the church, as is her separate class of believers distinctively titled "priests," offering up "real" human flesh and blood as a sacrifice for sin, and literally consuming this to obtain spiritual life, around which act all else revolves, and looking to Peter as the first of a line of exalted infallible popes reigning over the church from Rome, and a separate class of believers distinctively titled "saints," and praying to created being in Heaven, and being formally justified by ones own sanctification/holiness, and thus enduring postmortem purifying torments in order to become good enough to enter Heaven, and saying rote prayers to obtain early release from it, and requiring clerical celibacy as the norm. Etc.