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To: daniel1212
As usual, your very thorough posts leave Papists naked and exposed. You definitely hit a home run here. All your points were excellent, but I especially took notice of your points 4 & 5:

4. Nowhere (in the Bible) is the church exhorted to look to Peter as its supreme infallible head.

5. Not once in the Lord's own letters to the churches (Rev. 2 & 3) is the pope even mentioned, despite the critiques, commendations and censures.

76 posted on 03/09/2014 2:27:46 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas

On your point 5, everybody - except our befuddled preterists - knows Revelation was written late in the first century. This gives time for the alleged successors of Peter to have been well known in the churches everywhere. Surely such a successor would have been, at the very least hinted at, in the Lord’s letters to the seven churches. No such hint, no mention. If Jesus Christ knows of no such Petrine succession, neither should we. Romanists know more than Jesus Christ?


78 posted on 03/09/2014 2:43:16 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas

**Nowhere (in the Bible) is the church exhorted to look to Peter as its supreme infallible head.**

Please read about the Council of Jerusalem. St. Peter was the speaker, then others took action.


80 posted on 03/09/2014 2:58:14 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: sasportas

...But fail to take into account that Catholics don’t subscribe to sola scriptura (which contradicts itself by not being in the bible), rendering the points in question moot.


81 posted on 03/09/2014 3:00:17 PM PDT by Celtic Cross (The brain is the weapon; everything else is just accessories. --FReeper Joe Brower)
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To: sasportas; daniel1212

Heck, not only is any pope not mentioned.

ROME isn’t even mentioned.

Quite a glaring oversight by Jesus, would it not be?


90 posted on 03/09/2014 4:02:56 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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