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What else there is is the rest of the universe, including the whole body of Christ. The authority I have to decide is God-given. It is not granted a privilege by the State or church.

Again, you cite Scripture that does not support your position. I almost didn’t notice you completely ignoring the proof in failures to heal and resurrect the dead.

God given authority to reason for myself. In short, I reject all claims of authority over me that I do not consent to. It is in the Declaration of Independence. I suggest you read and understand it.

You are still confusing A with B A. Being on the same page with another B. Being the same being.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Apostolic succession is a man-made device. One way to know the successors don’t have the authority as the 12 who walked with Christ is the absence of resurrecting the dead and healing the sick.

There you go again, equating Christ with the heretical RCC.

Clearly, it is the RCC position that they are our only mediator to Christ. They have in effect, made themselves our only mediator to the divine co-equality with Christ. It's all power driven; they seek power over others.

You did not address this in the other thread @theefaith and I doubt you will here ... Sola Scriptura, like all principles of how to live life, do not have to be proven because it is not evidence based. The principle of Sola Scriptura is a pure rejection of that heretical denomination known as...

Well son, that's just it! Freedom is extreme and does not need a reason. I've noticed this trend over the years. Tyrants step over the line of privacy as if it is even there. They want to know why people resist their machinations. And of course, no reason is good enough when you go against...

Jesus is obviously NOT mentioned in John 1:1. I know how desperate you must be to assert this obvious falsehood. As far as the Bible "defining" who the Word is. Again, words are WHAT's not WHO's. And John 1:1 explicitly says the word was with God. This is how you know the word is not a WHO, or...

That's quite a reach for the 11th century founding of this denomination. Mythology, nothing more. The Eastern Orthodox Church disagrees. In fact, the RCC is the only denomination out of 35,000 that think this. It is my understanding that the 4th century establishment of the Orthodox church went...

And that is, in fact, in error. We know this because the RCC as currently constituted was made by man 11 centuries after the resurrection.

The trinity is nowhere in the Bible - not the word and not the doctrine. And you call me delusional. LOL

It is the proper interpretation of the Gospel of John that everything he wrote was to say Jesus is the Messiah - and, therefore, nothing else. 20:31 makes this interpretation explicit. (Not narrow but explicit interpretation from explicit text.) The assertion that the Jewish mind equates the...

The exact opposite is true! What you are calling explicit is the ultimate example of figurative. Jesus is not even mentioned in the verse you site. That is how you know the verse is NOT explicitly saying something about Jesus. But you reject explicit because it doesn't fit your dogma.

Exactly correct - except not a complaint just an observation that claiming something is inspired by God - that others accept (such as Scripture) - is not the same thing as the RCC making unilateral proclamations of its own power - that others reject. See the difference?

You have no Earthly idea what explicit even means then. NOTE: The Holy Spirit absent?! Jesus is not even in the sentence. Jesus is a person not an attribute of person. Read and understand 20:31 where John explicitly tells us everything he wrote was for a purpose other than to proof the trinity...

I think you know. RCC is an abbreviation for the Catholics church. This was discussed in another thread. Yup, which the RCC is a part. Says you. The Orthodox Church says it is the Church that Jesus founded. It is the Church from which all the myriads of Protestant denominations and sects...

While true, what is your point?

You do not seem to discern councils of men recognizing what is God-given from councils of men claiming the power to give what only God can give.