There never was a Chair of St. Peter. Peter was never acknowledged as a Pope by any of the Apostles. Rome invented this to make one of theirs a new kind of Caeser.
John and Peter rush to the empty tomb, and John the beloved apostle, lets Peter go in first even though he was the faster runner and got there first. Why?
What one individual did the resurrected Jesus tell to "feed his sheep" when the apostles met him on the shore with his breakfast of fish? He didn't say it to the group mind you.
Who settled the matter in Acts about circumcision and dietary laws?
Hmmm...
Rejecting the authority of the Pope because of where the Catholic Church has gone since 33AD is different than being ignorant as can be about who was the acknowledged leader of the apostles after Jesus ascended.
Well, there's plenty wrong with the Catholic Church. I get why people disparage it, it deserve much scorn.
But the idea that everyone had it wrong for 1500 years till Luthor or Calvin came along, well, that's just Protestants protesting. It's what they were founded on, protesting the Catholic Church. It's part of who and what they are, and if you take that away from them, what are they then?
There never was a Chair of St. Peter. Peter was never acknowledged as a Pope by any of the Apostles. Rome invented this to make one of theirs a new kind of Caeser.
Thank you!!! This is such a wildly simple argument that it makes most Catholics heads explode.
Just ask why there needs to be a pope in the first place, and then watch the mental gymnastics take place
John and Peter rush to the empty tomb, and John the beloved apostle, lets Peter go in first even though he was the faster runner and got there first. Why?
What one individual did the resurrected Jesus tell to "feed his sheep" when the apostles met him on the shore with his breakfast of fish? He didn't say it to the group mind you.
Who settled the matter in Acts about circumcision and dietary laws?
Hmmm...
Rejecting the authority of the Pope because of where the Catholic Church has gone since 33AD is different than being ignorant as can be about who was the acknowledged leader of the apostles after Jesus ascended.
Papists gunna pap.
Well, there's plenty wrong with the Catholic Church. I get why people disparage it, it deserve much scorn.
But the idea that everyone had it wrong for 1500 years till Luthor or Calvin came along, well, that's just Protestants protesting. It's what they were founded on, protesting the Catholic Church. It's part of who and what they are, and if you take that away from them, what are they then?
Everyone? Many people sure, but not everyone.