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Wow--that's quotable--:oops: alert the media! So, back to the Original Post and my first comment #18-- Why the vehement assumption and insistence by the Catholic Church that Jesus bestowed all authority upon Peter the rock in Matthew 16, as if he was personally the Cornerstone rather than Jesus?

Thank you for clarifying. But just to be clear: So...you are saying then, that the Catholic Church leaders, including the Pope, do not have their "own Authority?"

I have only quoted your last paragraph so as not to complicate the issue, but rather be concise in giving an answer to the pertinent question(s). It is our hearts that are to be guarded against all enemies, which having first been born evil and of the flesh, we ourselves are included and...

I do realize that I through a curve into the mix here to show the truth of darkness and God's dealings pertaining to the Original Post, but I really didn't want to derail the thread by going on and on about all the details. But I will say in clarification, that there is no "since" anything with...

Careful, that is not a biblical statement. There is war in heaven. Isaiah 45:7 (KJV) I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. We should indeed know that God too does not like war, and in the end there will be war no more. But just as...

By the same rationale as God used the ravens to feed Elijah, or to have a donkey talk to Balaam, or used Isaiah a man of unclean lips, or used David an adulterer and a murderer, or Solomon who had a thousand wives, or Peter whom Jesus called Satan, or Paul who persecuted Christians. And for the...

First let me say-- You are asking all the right questions, and certainly asking is the best approach--not that there are not dangers, and more false than true who would answer. Remember--your best Guide..."is within you." That is a big question, as is the answer: Time is an illusion (even...

It is not so much a matter of whether the correct word is "within" or "among", but rather what is meant by "the kingdom of God." The message then is not so much a matter of "finding" the kingdom of God, or being in or out of it, but first realizing that in or out we are under His rule and...

So, carry on as it is written, "Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind!"

You decide your own fate by who and what you gravitate to. Which is not a dilemma I have established, but He whose hands we are all in. I have only told you what you did not know about it.

You assume too much. Your loss.

The indication is that we all are born out of or from God. Which, yes, means you too have come out from God. The point being...that because our roots stem from that place of God; and because we are told and learn by our own experience here, that this lesser existence is as if we are walking dead...

Good, that's a start. Of which I also stated. I meant "you all" as a religious sect. Since you insist that the it is the leaders of your sect that are in charge, I specifically meant you who believe them to be of their "own authority." Nothing false, just what you have projected.

I was not referring to me as being mocked by you--although that too is quite telling--but to the fact that you mock and scoff against the Holy Spirit apparently in anyone but the leaders of the church...which is not even biblical. As for the scriptures, you also apparently have not read them...

That is not a true statement. Scripture (by Joel) tells of God pouring out His spirit upon all flesh--not just Peter, Popes, or leaders of the church. Which was then confirmed by both Jesus and Peter, and by historical record on the day of Pentecost. In addition, there is much more written...

Reported.

The very thing that was promised--you mock. Very telling. Peter spoke of this.

I claim nothing as my own.

Yes, and a little bit of information should even be considered dangerous--and that is often all that opinion and speculation is. It's like after attending the first grade, assuming to be qualified to then teach the remaining six grades of elementary school. Surely, it's just a clear indication...

Your hypothesis assumes that human logic is correct. It's not Consider/remember this is that same Peter, lovable as he was, whose previous actions were rebuked by Jesus, saying to him (calling him by name) "Get behind Me, Satan!", and who "three times denied knowing" Jesus who then dressed him...