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  1. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    The problem with Bible cults is they reject the doctrine of Original Sin. https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/to-explain-infant-baptism-you-must-explain-original-sin
  2. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    Documentation, please. Documentation please. Where do you get these lies? You never say. Because if you cited your sources, you would expose yourself as a non-denominational Bible cultist.
  3. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    No, but you treat is as though it were. Jesus didn't write Matthew, Matthew wrote Matthew. He was a translator. You left out the next verse, where Jesus gives HIS AUTHORITY to mere humans. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[ a]the name of the Father and of the...
  4. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    Oldest copies were translations from Aramaic to the written Greek, not the other way around. BTW, there is no such thing as a divine human language. GREEK is not a divine language. Matthew translated Jesus' Aramaic words into Greek and that's where you are confused. "Simon bar Jonah" is not a...
  5. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    BofL said no such thing. Please use the quote feature and knock off the slander. It is the general consensus of religious scholars and historians that Jesus and his disciples primarily spoke Aramaic, the traditional language of Judea in the first century AD. Their Aramaic was most likely a...
  6. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    It is you who deny the meaning of plain English words, such as the difference between veneration and worship. Truth is objective, not subjective. All Catholic doctrine is derived directly or indirectly from Scripture. Weak or dead Catholics fall for your hate propaganda. Practicing informed...
  7. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    Still, after a detailed explanation of the difference between veneration and worship, you still don't get it. Once again, the Pope is honoring the prototype (in heaven), not the statue itself. Only the Holy Spirit can break your chains of prejudice. You may fool some people by repeating the...
  8. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    CATHOLIC: Where did the word originate? It comes from the Greek word Katholikos, which was later Latinized into Catholicus. It means 'Universal', which in itself means, 'of or relating to, or affecting the entire world and ALL peoples therein'. It means, ALL encompassing, comprehensibly broad...
  9. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    The word “worship” has undergone a change in meaning in English. It comes from the Old English weorthscipe, which means the condition of being worthy of honor, respect, or dignity. To worship in the older, larger sense is to ascribe honor, worth, or excellence to someone, whether a sage, a...
  10. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    "Mary worship", and so, that is related to "Catholic Doctrine" is wrong. Catholic doctrine forbids Mary worship. She is a creature, like us. We honor her because God honored her first. We need to distinguish between how the word cult is used in Catholic theology and how it is used in the...
  11. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    It's a Bible cult teaching, not Catholic teaching. It's contrary to what is officially taught in the catechism. If you cite the catechism, be sure to post a link to the page so I know you are not making stuff up like the way Bible cults do. Fashioning weapons from Scripture or the catechism to...
  12. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    That's what you see, but it is not the reality. Plus you are OFF TOPIC. The Pope is venerating the prototype (who is in heaven), not plastic. Only stupid people think the Pope worships plastic. The disdain for anything physical, especially Christian art, originates in Gnosticism, not...
  13. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    Can you crank up the hate any harder??? The Black Madonna, (taken from the painting) and icon in the chapel of the Virgin Mary in the fortified Baroque Pauline monastery of Jasna Góra, in Częstochowa, Poland, that has been venerated by Christians for some 600 years. The Black Madonna is an...
  14. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    The Church Fathers developed what Paul said. It is incorrect to regard St. Paul as some kind of spiritual “lone ranger,” on his own with no particular ecclesiastical allegiance, since he was commissioned by Jesus Himself as an Apostle. -In his very conversion experience, Jesus informed Paul...
  15. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    Someone once said, "Protestant historians are the enemy of anti-Catholics."
  16. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    That is your tradition to make reckless airhead statements. No, we don't. The BIBLICAL rule of faith is Scripture, Magisterium and Tradition. all in harmony and one is not over the other. The Church Fathers give witness to what the early Church believed. Not only that, they preserved...
  17. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    Q: In Matthew 15:1-9 (the "you make void the word of God by your tradition" passage), didn't Jesus indicate that any tradition which contradicts Scripture is false, meaning that we must test traditions by Scripture, meaning that tradition is inferior to Scripture? A: It is true that any...
  18. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    You are against mythical tradition of your imagination. Obviously you have no clue what the Bible says about it and you have not addressed as single thing in my last 2 posts. Neither did I. I gave examples of where tradition is in the Bible that you are trying to disqualify by adding the word...
  19. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    ITS BIBLE TIME! The New Testament explicitly teaches that traditions can be either good (from God) or bad (from men, when against God’s true traditions). Corrupt pharisaic teachings were a bad tradition (but many of their legitimate teachings were recognized by Jesus; see, e.g., Matthew 23:3)...
  20. Jude Thaddeus

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    Many Protestants (especially anti-Catholic ones) hold, by and large, the view that Scripture and sacred, apostolic tradition are somehow unalterably opposed to each other and, for all practical purposes, mutually exclusive. This is yet another example of a false dichotomy which Protestantism...