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That's not even remotely what that verse means. It's talking about how we should forgive others ass Christ forgives us. That doesn't give us permission or authority to absolve someone's sin - only the blood of Christ can do this.
No. The Catholic Cult did, along with you.
Do you not think that protestant churches have deacons and other appointed members of church leadership?
What could you even possibly be referencing here?
The Bible is very clear that Christ alone is our path to salvation, yet you'd mislead people to think that baptism is required, merited works are required, not to die with mortal sins, that Mary is holy in any capacity, that Mary can receive prayer, purgatory exists and that people can be prayed out of it, and many other completely blasphemous statements.
Christ Himself said we need to be baptized. Unless you are dying and want to but can not be baptized, you are not going to get into heaven without baptism.
You are rejecting the teachings of Christ and the apostles in favor of some horse manure that didn’t even exist as a deception until a millennia and a half after Christ taught the opposite of what you are falsely proclaiming.
Yes, it's a commandment to be baptized as a public declaration of your faith. Believers should be baptized if they are following Christ, but it is in no way a requirement of salvation.
And where do you draw this distinction from? The Bible is incredibly clear on salvation:
Salvation is from faith alone in Christ - that He paid the price of our sin for us, and that we receive His free gift. When you add on ANYTHING else, you are saying that Christ is not enough, that He is not sufficient. That is blatant blasphemy.
John 3:16 - “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.
Ephesians 2:8-9 - For by grace you have been saved through faith; and [a]this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Titus 3:5 - He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we did in righteousness, but in accordance with His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Acts 16:31 - They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Romans 5:8 - But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
2 Corinthians 5:21 - He made Him who knew no sin to be sin in our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Scripture does not contradict itself, it is God's word.
The physical act of baptism is clearly outlined as the public declaration of one's faith in Christ. The physical act of baptism is not salvation. Christ alone is sufficient. Physical baptism represents the spiritual act of baptism, which is salvation.
The only thing I follow is The Word of God, and not any additional documents such as you do. These documents I follow have explicitly existed since shortly after Jesus's time, and follow His Word and nothing else.
You are projecting your own actions onto me when you follow the cult which is the Catholic "Church."
Think for two seconds about the situation: Do you really think that God would let, "His chosen leader [the pope]" be so blatantly against God himself if this was truly his plan for us to follow? For you to remain in the Catholic Cult requires such a poor understanding of The Bible and God's word that it is truly a mystery how you believe you are competent enough to defend your position.
All that you say is derived from false interpretation of translation of scripture 1600 + years after Christ.
This is the reason protestant denominations constantly degenerate: every person considers themselves to be the ultimate authority on interpretation. This is false, because God would then constantly contradict Himself.
Sorry, but Satan quotes the scriptures like you do: distorting and inverting their meaning.You are deceived.
The Bible was written by Catholics through the Holy Spirit, and declared to be the Word of God by a pope.
I'd love to hear any actual evidence for that. All you've presented is an assertion and total blind trust in a horrendously corrupt institution.
Not a single protestant considers themselves to be an authority on anything - What part of me telling you that I follow God's Word alone haven't you been getting?
I'm quoting them literally. The only one distorting scripture is yourself.
Hahahahahaahh.
For starters, we just ignoring that The Old Testament exists in it's entirety now?
Secondly, there's not a single Biblical instance of Peter even visiting Rome - at best you can say he wrote from, "Babylon" once, which is universally used as a sinful place - therefore your Holy City would be a place of sin.
Peter NEVER is declared to have any authority over the other apostles, anywhere in God's word. He never acted as if he had authority over others. Nowhere does scripture say that a bishop from Rome has authority over other Churches. Nowhere was authority granted to apostles passed down to others from scripture.
What scripture DOES tell us is to compare false teachings of churches to come to the actual scriptures - the actual Word of God. His Word alone is our standard, not some corrupt group of humans. The apostles were shown at many times as being fallible, and certainly never infallible.
Nowhere did Peter claim to be the first pope, and nowhere does the rest of scripture support this corrupt idea.
It's again telling that you can't respond to the points I make to you. You choose to ignore the points I mention, or simply create an assertion that they are false with zero evidence. If you actually studied The Bible well enough to respond with evidence, you certainly wouldn't be proclaiming Catholicism. I pray that you truly find Christ some day, and stop trying to add to him. He and He alone is sufficient.