***You just CUT the Holy SPirit right out of the loop.. OR made him a drone, a doofus, a janitor, a worker in the Hive, an editor, a publistist, a waiter, dish washer, valet, butler, enabler, or worse NOT NEEDED AT ALL...***
You know, I don’t remember from our previous conversations whether you are Trinitarian at all.
I will repeat for those of the temporally mentally challenged: Jesus created the Catholic Church and the Holy Spirit commissioned it at Pentecost.
Martin Luther et al walked away from it during the Reformation. How can you dudes claim that you are part of the Church when you voted with your feet (or your ancestors did and you never came back) and turned your backs on the Church? Answer: you can’t. And that is a huge problem and results in a huge chip on some folks’ shoulders.
Resolution: come back to the Church. Problem: a massive ego and a hubris and desire to be one’s own Pope. Give up the ego and the resolution becomes easy.
[ Martin Luther et al walked away from it during the Reformation. How can you dudes claim that you are part of the Church when you voted with your feet (or your ancestors did and you never came back) and turned your backs on the Church? ]
Luther left the RCC, true, others were never a prisoner in it.. The RCC didn’t assume non local power until about 313AD.. Until then most localities had local governments..
But it is true that, RCC histories have been re-written with spin to suggest (almost)constant primacy of Rome.. which of course is jaded or even a lie.. lets assume jaded..
Millers Church History....
http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/ebooks/millers/toc.htm
I don’t believe he’s the one who is temporarily mentally challenged (nice thing to say, by the way, to someone who disagrees with your church errors.)