Why does the Roman Catholic Church believe that the Bishop of Rome is the exclusive and rightful successor to Peter? (celibacy, woman)
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Petra is a feminine noun. Using that form of the word would be like me calling you Natalie instead of Nate.
And so when you switch to describing the foundation of the church you leave it in the masculine form if you are talking about Peter. How hard is that to understand?
No, only about 1/4 of a zillion, the Peter as foundation for the church was very much a minority position.
You forget nate . . . he is relying on the fact that the powerful Roman Empire coerced the acceptance of the Roman Bishop as Pope through force-of-arms and slaughter . . . very "Godly" provenance.
You forget nate . . . he is relying on the fact that the powerful Roman Empire coerced the acceptance of the Roman Bishop as Pope through force-of-arms and slaughter . . . very "Godly" provenance.
After the Great Schism perhaps, but before then...not so much.
Good try though.
Dead wrong as I have mentioned before. It was a minority position before the Popes decided that the misunderstanding would make a good basis for their power grab.
Dead wrong as I have mentioned before. It was a minority position before the Popes decided that the misunderstanding would make a good basis for their power grab.
Oh, right. The big lie again. It's all coming together now.
How are the Knights Templar and the Illuminati involved?
Was there a gunman on the grassy knoll, and was he a Jesuit?
You forget nate . . . he is relying on the fact that the powerful Roman Empire coerced the acceptance of the Roman Bishop as Pope through force-of-arms and slaughter . . . very "Godly" provenance.
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Originally Posted by CRCarson
Hilarious. Really.
Resort to mockery and ridicule is a sign of defeat. Sticking one's tongue out is a very mature and intellectual rebuttal. Are you suggesting that the Roman Empire did NOT coerce the acceptance of the Roman Bishop as Pope and Catholicism as the state religion?
Resort to mockery and ridicule is a sign of defeat. Sticking one's tongue out is a very mature and intellectual rebuttal. Are you suggesting that the Roman Empire did NOT coerce the acceptance of the Roman Bishop as Pope and Catholicism as the state religion?
I'm suggesting you rub the belly of the fat man again for real knowledge instead of luck.
I'm leaving the forum. How is it, so many of you are allowed to trash, disrespect and misrepresent the Catholic Church and it's members, is beyond me. I had 78 out of my first 100 posts removed from reportedly changing the subject...while I don't remember one thread ever being titled in respect to the trashing that many of you have done. Which of course proves that that you can play under a different set of rules.
So you can continue to wallow in your disagreements and be different & confused under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, of course.
For the benefit of those of us who have not attained your degree of clarity, would you mind posting some of your analysis of the differences between petros and petra? Where there any differences in the usage of those two words during the first century or were they largely synonymous? Why does Paul call Peter Cephas if he was only a lithos? That kind of thing.
Thanks.
CD ask that you not change the topic of a thread or start new ones if a subject has been dealt with many times. I suggest you spend some time searching the CD archives for those discussions.
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