Also - God didn’t “make Jesus” the leader of religion.
Jesus IS GOD. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jesus (God) made Peter the leader of the Universal (Katholikos) Church on Earth and gave Peter the authority to FORGIVE AND RETAIN SINS!!! And to BIND AND LOOSE.
Peter used that binding/loosing power to continue to pass on the position of the visible head if the church on earth (we call it the papacy in english).
No one claims the church “belongs “ to the pope. The pope us the head pastor and has spiritual authority to forgive and retain sins and bind and loose (along with the other bishops).
That’s just sad. No man can forgive you if your sins. We as people can forgive each other. Brothers and sisters. Only God/Jesus can forgive sin in His eyes. That’s the problem with you Catholics, you’ve placed a normal man between you and God. There is no pope in the Bible. He is just a normal man. Who is a sinner just like you and me. Nothing more special than you are. To God we are equal. He already choose us. Now we must choose Him. Keep man out of it.
“The sins you forgive are forgiven, the sins you retain are retained.” The idea here is that ON BEHALF OF GOD, the apostles, then bishops, and priests can act “in the person of Christ” to absolve sin. This is to avoid having to do public confessions of sin. (“Confess your sins, one to another.”)
It’s not sad - it’s what the early church did up until Luther.
Also - God didn’t “make Jesus” the leader of religion.
Jesus IS GOD. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jesus (God) made Peter the leader of the Universal (Katholikos) Church on Earth and gave Peter the authority to FORGIVE AND RETAIN SINS!!! And to BIND AND LOOSE.
Peter used that binding/loosing power to continue to pass on the position of the visible head if the church on earth (we call it the papacy in english).
No one claims the church “belongs “ to the pope. The pope us the head pastor and has spiritual authority to forgive and retain sins and bind and loose (along with the other bishops).
That’s just sad. No man can forgive you if your sins. We as people can forgive each other. Brothers and sisters. Only God/Jesus can forgive sin in His eyes. That’s the problem with you Catholics, you’ve placed a normal man between you and God. There is no pope in the Bible. He is just a normal man. Who is a sinner just like you and me. Nothing more special than you are. To God we are equal. He already choose us. Now we must choose Him. Keep man out of it.
“The sins you forgive are forgiven, the sins you retain are retained.” The idea here is that ON BEHALF OF GOD, the apostles, then bishops, and priests can act “in the person of Christ” to absolve sin. This is to avoid having to do public confessions of sin. (“Confess your sins, one to another.”)
It’s not sad - it’s what the early church did up until Luther.