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The Roman Catholic church traces their succession of Popes back to Peter. Do you also think that Peter was actually a Pope? Assuming not... please apply the same logic to the rest of the "popes" that existed during the period in which Christianity was illegal, and the Roman empire was in the...

This. The Democrat party is extinct... only the name lingers on, claimed by the Socialists who want all the big-government things the original Democrats opposed. Everyone who used to be a Democrat is now an Independent or a Libertarian.

I don't know where you're getting this, but it's bad information. The Roman emperor Constantine de-criminalized Christianity in the year 313. Prior to that, there was no Catholic church after the fashion of a political entity that had any power or the corruption that comes with it. The...

That's a good definition, but you should include duration as well as position.

Bishops are Biblical. Dispose of the high-falutin word, and they're just the overseers and elders of a church. Irenaeus pre-dates what most would think of as the Catholic church. Irenaeus lived in France and was the student of Polycarp, who himself lived in Asia Minor and was the student of...

You need to study history. Justin was born in Samaria at a time before any Pope of Rome had come to political power.

I'm not catholic... and neither was Justin Martyr.

You have expended a great deal of effort to explain away a fifth of the examples I provided. It would seem that your main quarrel is with the idea that the water is somehow regenerative. I can agree with you on that. Like I said earlier, the water is not salvic, it's a symbol. That symbol is...

The context of Colossians 2 is probably a warning against gnostic thought. The verse before this one reads, "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men." The gnostic thought in question I hypothesize to be some form of emanationism - the idea...

You might want to check claims like that before you repeat them. Not only are there a handful of verses from Peter and Paul after Acts, but the early writings of the church attest to water baptism as well. Above, Justin Martyr wrote in the 2nd century AD, and the Didache is a collection of...

That's logical. But how many people remember Him for his carpentry?

Joseph was a carpenter. Virtually everyone learned their profession from their father and carried on the family business. The people in Jesus hometown called Him carpenter, because that is what they expected Him to become. But He didn't become a carpenter. He became a rabbi and sometimes...

You're moving the goalposts. You claimed that in this chapter, they weren't baptized with water. I showed that they were, now you're changing the question to something else.

Just glossing past verse 47, where water is specifically mentioned? Act 10:47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?

From Wikipedia (emphasis added): The doctrine of the serpent seed, also known as the dual-seed or the two-seedline doctrine, is a controversial and fringe Christian religious belief which explains the biblical account of the fall of man by stating that the Serpent mated with Eve in the Garden...

It's a symbol of death, birth, and adoption (re-birth). Death is symbolized as the drowning of the old man. Birth is symbolized because babies are born when mommy's water breaks. And adoption, because being re-born means that you have a new parent. Or as Jesus said, "You must be born again."...

You are waaaaay off. Someone is teaching you that serpent-seed crap.

Of course the water does nothing. It's a symbol.

Yeah it does... Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Water Baptism IS for the remission of sinning. But it's also an adoption ceremony. The Jews have baptized their proselytes since before the New Testament was written. They baptize in the name of Abraham - adopting the proselyte as a child of Abraham.