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    The Biblical Basis for Catholic Distinctives

    I consider it more than interesting that the Vatican and the Mafia share the same domicile.
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    The Biblical Basis for Catholic Distinctives

    Rather than exercising God-given freedom of choice, Catholics would rather relegate that task to a fallible pope. Matthew 15:14 ...If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
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    The Biblical Basis for Catholic Distinctives

    The catholic (universal) church is the Christian Church. (Acts 11:26) It is not the Catholic Church. The disciples were called Christians, not Catholics. Thank God for the Reformation. God raised up, inspired, and empowered His Reformers to liberate His True Christian Church from spiritual...
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    The Biblical Basis for Catholic Distinctives

    Peter was present in Luke 12. (Luke 12:41). Jesus didn't single him out there. Even when Peter asked for clarification of Jesus' parable. Do you think that the stewards referenced in the Scriptures I cited are inferior to Peter? Peter himself affirms them as "good stewards of the manifold...
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    The Biblical Basis for Catholic Distinctives

    All explanatory New Testament references are to plural stewards, descriptive of each and every child of God. 1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be...
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    The Biblical Basis for Catholic Distinctives

    According to Robert Bellarmine: “All names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ, by virtue of which it is established that He is over the church, all the same names are applied to the Pope.” – Robert Bellarmine, On the Authority of the Councils, book 2, chapter 17 Isaiah 9:6 6 For...