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Sccott, you can't make intelligent comments on any of my posts so you resort to cheap anti-Catholic shots. Forum sadism...now there is a concept.

"I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment" (1 Cor. 1:10). This does not speak to the visible structure of the Church as such, but it is helpful...

"For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things" (Acts 15:28) This quote, taken from the letter sent from the Council to the churches, demonstrates that the bishops gathered in council believe their judgment to also be that of...

What part of "we do not deny that the Church is also a spiritual-invisible reality" do you not understand?

For the third time: we do not deny that the Church is also a spiritual-invisible reality, nor do we assert that salvation is strictly predicated only of those who are formally part of the physical Church structure - although we confess such an arrangement to be normative. In emphasizing the...

We are talking about the Keys of the Kingdom, and the power to bind and loose that Jesus gave to Peter. Not baptism. What the flesh wants has nothing to do with a physical/spiritual church and nothing to do with a physical/spiritual Incarnation. It's both. Spiritualizing Peter and everything...

We believe in faith that the Church is infallible and indefectible, based on many biblical indications. It is theoretically possible (speaking in terms of philosophy or epistemology) that the Church could stray and have to be rejected, but the Bible rules that out. We believe in faith that it...

Why don't you make a list of the gloried up Church Fathers, or at least name two.

Jesus took the path of the flesh when He gave Keys to Peter? There you go again, "...whatsoever you bind on earth" spiritualizing earth and everything else, obfuscating the words of Jesus with "spirit of God" as if that's supposed to make a point.

Why can't it be both? Why the false dichotomy? Do spirits feed, cloth, educate and provide medical care to more people than anybody else on the planet? Sorry, but this requires a physical earthly institution WITH Spirit. Drastically separating the two is more like Manichaenism, a dualistic heresy.

15 He said to them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ 16 Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.’ 17 And Jesus answered him, ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you, you are...

I am not saying we own the canon, I'm just saying you cannot admit to how we got it in the first place. Instead you go on about how evil men were.

Scripture says BOTH a physical AND a spiritual church. You are inventing another false dichotomy. I'll remind you what I said in post #127: Please keep in mind, we do not deny that the Church is also a spiritual-invisible reality, nor do we assert that salvation is strictly predicated only of...

The scribes and Pharisees as you describe were not spirits. There is nothing "spiritual" about what they were doing. Their errors were earthly and physical. What is the biblical definition of binding and loosing??? They are physical acts that an invisible church cannot do.

I am talking about the keys of the kingdom, you are talking about coming to the Father, WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM. THAT'S A TOTALLY DIFFERENT TOPIC. You constantly skip to different topics. You have no cohesive alternative explanation to the meaning of the keys, you...

The canon of the NT is not a wild fish story. We Catholics eagerly await a non-contradictory, plausible alternate Protestant explanation of how Christianity came to obtain the present NT Canon. Such insurmountable obstacles are representative of the reasons many of us former Protestants felt...

The basic assumptions the typical Evangelical has about the papacy are part of the wallpaper in the Evangelical world. Being brought up in an independent Bible Church, I was taught that our little fellowship of Christians meeting to study the Bible, pray and sing gospel songs was like the ‘early...

Yea, which has nothing to do with the discussion. So what. I can't appeal to Protestant scholars because you disagree with them, I certainly can't appeal to Catholic scholars because you will reject them out-of-hand, I can't appeal the the Early Church Fathers because you have nothing to do...

I said no such thing. Coming to the Father is a straw man fallacy to the meaning of the keys, which you are in resistance to what the Bible says, as I have carefully explained, using Isaiah, Matthew and Revelation. You offer no cohesive alternative explanation to the meaning of the keys, you...

Binding and loosing has nothing to do with binding the works of the flesh. It is a rabbinical term. You can find "binding and loosing" on any Jewish resource but Jesus perfected it. Matt. 16:19 – whatever Peter binds or looses on earth is bound or loosed in heaven / when the Prime Minister to...