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I don't need Scriptural evidence. I welcome ANY evidence, any reason to believe, any logic whatsoever on the seven points I identified.

True. And I am not a sola scriptura guy.

I'm aware of the Antiochene succession. But the question you haven't addressed is why should Peter's LAST appointee be the new pope? And why should it matter WHERE Peter died? These are silly arguments you are making. And by the way, there is zero evidence that Peter "presided" over anything...

Who sent in the Minnesota National Guard after the Floyd riots? A democratic governor, or a lying-sack-of-you-know-what President? https://www.fox9.com/news/minnesota-governor-activates-national-guard-to-restore-calm-amid-escalating-unrest-over-george-floyd-death...

You mean, "Please find it in one of those writings which were collected into the canon in the fourth century"? I can't.

Correct. But that doesn't mean He said anything about Peter's successors. If Judas had an "office" that Peter wanted filled after Judas' death -- with Peter misquoting Ps. 69:25 (I'll give him a pass here, since this was pre-Pentecost)-- so be it. This proves nothing more than that the number...

Apology accepted. I've gone back through the entire thread and OP to search for the answer to my question, and don't find it. The OP certainly says -- and I agree -- that Acts identifies an incident of hypocrisy for Peter and one for Paul. But that was never my question. You: Peter and Paul...

NO. Trump is the topic, don;t make it about Biden. Trump is a world class liar. I figured that out well before he even got elected. I first caught a whiff in 2015 during the initial press coverage of Candidate Trump’s plethora of outlandish statements, from Mexico paying for The Wall, to...

So why isn't Evodus the second Pope and Ignatius the third?

LIKE WHAT? You don't think Trump is a liar? Holy S*&t! You must be one of the Trumpers I was talking about! Tracking the President’s mendacity became the sport of online sites such as Factcheck.org and Politifact. The Washington Post’s Fact Checker database put the count of his false and...

And some people willingly believe lies emanating from Trump. There are lots to choose from. Biden and Harris may be the world's greatest Bozos, but neither of them can match Trump when it comes to prevarication.

Is this a trick question? As best I can tell, when it comes to Peter’s passing on the Keys to the Kingdom to a single successor in Rome, and that successor to the next, and so on in an unbroken line of Roman bishops, the required assumptions are as follows: 1. Jesus gave Peter preeminent...

Lots of Americans do want him again. Some almost worship him, and treat most everything he says as gospel truth. The reasons are varied. Some voters hail Trump’s support for social policies aligned with their religious convictions, even as they ignore his personal moral shortcomings...

I'm not following the argument you are making. Few would doubt Peter's primacy among the apostles. Your case for that is convincing. But what has that to do with the papacy?

I am not supporting Randy! I think today's is my only post to you in my life! And I don't think you've ever made one to me before this (other than a "Like" to my Post #26 in this thread). Could you have me mixed up with someone else?

No need to get offended, my friend. I just asked a simple question: how you know that Peter and Paul committed only one act of hypocrisy each. (Now you say "at least" once, but that wasn't what you said earlier -- which is why I posed my question.)

How do you know that?

SOME of your theory is just conjecture. The passage you quote indicates Paul's plan to travel to Rome after Jerusalem, nothing more. He knew he would go to Rome next, but not necessarily in chains. The suggestion that "Christ had to have already shown him that he would be taken captive and...

James Madison said (Federalist Papers #14) that "in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person: in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, must be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over...

That would be the Gamaliel who told the Sanhedrin they should leave the apostles alone, Acts 5:38-39. His student Paul ignored that counsel, Acts 8:1-3, Acts 9:1.