Oh you misunderstand me. I'm a Christian. I just don't worship a corpse god nailed to a cross. I worship the living Son of God sitting at his right hand who was resurrected to everlasting life.
“The Pope takes the place of Jesus Christ on earth. By divine right, the Pope has supreme and full power in faith and morals over each and every pastor and his flock. He is the true Vicar of Christ, the Head of the entire Church, the father and teacher of all Christians. He is the infallible ruler, the founder of dogmas, the author of and the judge of councils, the universal ruler of truth, the arbiter of the world, the supreme judge of heaven and earth, the judge of all, being judged by no one, God Himself on earth.”
If the pope is the "Vicar of Christ on earth", then either Christ is a failure or the Catholic church is an outright fraud. Do you think Christ would have been blind to the fact that 80% of his own Church's priests were gay... something he and his father God repeatedly call an abominable act? Do you think that the living Son of God, who fashioned a leather whip, beat the shit out of money changers and flipped over their tables, would just it idly by and allow a gay pope and gay clergy to run his church?
Is Jesus powerless or is maybe the Catholic church a fraudulent institution.
Man has always corrupted and bastardized God’s word for his own benefit, for his own aggrandizement. Mega churches. Inner city pastors walking around in $5,000 suits while their congregations live hand to mouth. It isn’t unique to Catholicism, and it’s all a damned shame. Jesus, come back.
The Pope is not the vicar of Christ on earth. There is no such thing. Some pope declared this of himself, and that is pride. He was fallen. There are hundreds of bishops in the Orthodox Church, and all are equal before God. There are patriarchs and Metropolitans, but they have no more access to God than any other cleric. We do need pastors to help us understand God and his Word, but we do not elevate others to the kind of place the Pope claims for himself. That's not Christianity. Anyone who struggles for holiness can access God, in many different ways. The most humble is the closest, not the one in a grand palace like the Vatican.
Oh you misunderstand me. I'm a Christian. I just don't worship a corpse god nailed to a cross. I worship the living Son of God sitting at his right hand who was resurrected to everlasting life.
If the pope is the "Vicar of Christ on earth", then either Christ is a failure or the Catholic church is an outright fraud. Do you think Christ would have been blind to the fact that 80% of his own Church's priests were gay... something he and his father God repeatedly call an abominable act? Do you think that the living Son of God, who fashioned a leather whip, beat the shit out of money changers and flipped over their tables, would just it idly by and allow a gay pope and gay clergy to run his church?
Is Jesus powerless or is maybe the Catholic church a fraudulent institution.
I submit the latter.
Man has always corrupted and bastardized God’s word for his own benefit, for his own aggrandizement. Mega churches. Inner city pastors walking around in $5,000 suits while their congregations live hand to mouth. It isn’t unique to Catholicism, and it’s all a damned shame. Jesus, come back.
The Pope is not the vicar of Christ on earth. There is no such thing. Some pope declared this of himself, and that is pride. He was fallen. There are hundreds of bishops in the Orthodox Church, and all are equal before God. There are patriarchs and Metropolitans, but they have no more access to God than any other cleric. We do need pastors to help us understand God and his Word, but we do not elevate others to the kind of place the Pope claims for himself. That's not Christianity. Anyone who struggles for holiness can access God, in many different ways. The most humble is the closest, not the one in a grand palace like the Vatican.
OK, the Catholic Church is an outright fraud.