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So, give me a clue then. Can't you just answer the question?

Fair point. Let me push back just a little. Just as all of the apostles were commissioned with the same power to bind and to loose that Matt. 16:19 references as being conferred on Peter (see John 20:22-23), so all of the apostles had power to appoint successors and bishops in cities...

So, tell this naive brother HOW Trump's trials were rigged. Sure, juries sometimes get the facts wrong, and judges sometimes get the law wrong, and appellate courts sometimes do not correct those mistakes of law -- as a result of which innocent defendants sometimes go to jail. And this may...

How were Trump's trials rigged? Tell me the process. Juror bribes? Something else?

I just don't believe that "Dem courts" found Trump guilty or liable. I've been through too many jury selections and trials, in front of too many judges, to buy into that, Jack. Those trials weren't "rigged" (Trump's word) or in "kangaroo" courts (your word).

You've taken a worldwide poll? Wow. That must have been exhausting!

I'm a Republican. I just have a preference for the truth.

How is it justice to punish A for the sins of B?

Nope. And I still don't. Is there anyone who agrees with you?

Tell me where the holiness is, where the justice is, where the logic is in punishing A for B's sin.

That's pretty much what Arius taught in the fourth century. He had a lot of adherents. But ultimately his heresy didn't stand the test of time.

Of course not. I agree with everything you said here. And if you'd said "the sky is blue," I'd agree with that too. Both are equally irrelevant to question I posed, though. I will pose it again, and hope for an answer that actually addresses it: WHY WAS A CRUCIFIXION OF THE SON OF GOD...

I did. Click on the link in Post #766. If the Papacy had widely recognized authority over Eastern dioceses in AD 325, why do YOU think Alexander didn't take the easy course of just appealing to Pope Sylvester to anathemize the Arian heresy?

Sylvester DEFINITELY had authority to send legates to Nicea. I have never said otherwise. His physical presence at the Council is irrelevant if his emissaries act in his stead. I have never said otherwise.

You were on the jury, Jack? Wow! Thanks for coming clean!

I don't quibble with faith in Christ leading to salvation. My question is why a crucifixion had to be involved here. Why was the blood of His only Son, in a brutal death, demanded as the price of forgiveness? A debt -- a civil matter, not a criminal matter -- can be forgiven at the whim of the...

Why couldn't the Almighty Creditor just forgive the debt, without seeing His Son nailed to a cross?

When Alexander, Metropolitan bishop of Alexandria, embarked on his goal to crush Arianism, he wrote to bishops throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond to enlist their resistance to the heresy. He didn't appeal to Pope Sylvester to simply use his Papal authority to crush Arianism. The...

Rome was NOT the head of the Church at the time. Advice and guidance are one thing. But Bishoprics in the East (Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, etc.) did not recognize Rome's bishop as having authority over them.

Of course he knew. They all did. And if Peter substituted "Jesus Christ" for son when following the Lord's command, what happened to THE OTHER TWO NAMES in that command? Did Peter just ignore them? Ballsy of him, don't you think?