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Subject All christians FOLLOW the Catholic Church's authority and infallibility

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Jesus gave Peter the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven saying “You are rock, and upon this rock I build my Church. I give you the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven.” Peter was indeed appointed head of the Church by Jesus himself. Peter literally means rock. The study of rocks is called Petrology. Why would Jesus in the same sentence say “You are rock, and upon a different rock I build my Church”? Protestants attempt to explain away the obvious meaning of this line in an attempt to deny the authority of the Pope by saying “Actually in the original Greek Jesus calls Peter “Petros” but then says he will build his Church upon this “Petra.” Yes, that’s true, but anyone who knows Greek knows that this is just how Greek grammar works. Anyone who understands Greek knows that there is no distinction between Peter the rock and the rock of Christ’s Church in that statement.
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The point is that you and the RCC claiming the RCC as the one true church begins in history as self-declaration, not Christ declared.

The congregation set up by Paul in Rome became a church with a bishop, just like dozens of others around the Mediterranean.

And ALL so-called early "popes" were basically nothing more than bishops, with no true authority over Christendom.

Only through subsequent Edicts did the church in Rome start claiming authority over the next several centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_and_state_in_medieval_Europe

[i]The Church gradually became a defining institution of the Roman Empire. Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan in 313 proclaiming toleration for the Christian religion, and convoked the First Council of Nicaea in 325 whose Nicene Creed included belief in "one holy catholic and apostolic Church". Emperor Theodosius I made Nicene Christianity the state church of the Roman Empire with the Edict of Thessalonica of 380.[/i]

Through such "Edicts" Rome mixed pagan statues, beliefs etc...into the "church", turning the apostolic churches into a hiararchy / tradition-laden religion, just like Judaism had become.

The Waldensians LEFT the Rome area because of such.

God and His Son Jesus finally got fed up with the RCC, and initiated the Reformation, which led to each person reading the Bible and following Jesus and the Father, not human popes who tried to prevent those things.
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Peter was known as the head of the Church since the earliest days of Christianity. That’s just an indisputable fact of history. Here are a dozen quotes from the first few centuries of Christianity proving this. Go ahead and find me one quote from the first few centuries AD that says otherwise. https://www.catholic.com/tract/origins-of-peter-as-pope

Also, the reformation was man-made and started by an ex-Catholic priest in sixteenth century Germany. Luther had valid complaints about abuse of power by the Church, but to start an entirely new religion and divide the Body of Christ was insane and against the will of God. Jesus prayed with tears that his people would be one. We now have 10,000 Christian denominations because people think they can interpret things for themselves. There is a reason Jesus established a Church. And he made Peter the first leader of it. Anti-Catholic paranoia and misunderstanding still runs deep thanks to the Reformation. For example, you call the Church pagan because we honor the saints, thinking we worship or deify them which we do not. We ask them to pray for us to God because they are alive in Heaven and are the greatest examples in human history of what Christians are called to be. You might as well call people pagan who hang pictures of their deceased loved ones on their wall.
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Original Message Here's why...

In Matt 16: 17-19

Jesus changes Simon's name (means little grain of sand in Aramaic) to Kepha (means massive rock in Aramaic; Peter) and says "upon Kepha I will build my Church and the gates of hell will never overpower it." - though hell is trying very hard to overpower it in today's world! Jesus then gives Peter (1st Pope) the keys to the kingdom of heaven and says, "whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

The Church has binding and loosing authority. Think about that for a minute. If it is bound in heaven it has to be perfect because heaven is perfect. This is the basis for authority and infallibility of the Church.

Now... to how all christians FOLLOW the authority and infallibility of the Catholic Church:

The Catholic Church compiled the New Testament of the Bible in 382AD during the Council of Rome (see link below). The Church leaders under Pope Damasus I used the binding and loosing authority and infallibility of the Catholic Church to vote on what books and letters should be in the Bible or not. They voted out the gospel of Hebrews for example but voted in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. There were thousand of books and letters that the Church had to review which many authors thought were inspired by the Holy Spirit.

If you don't believe in the authority and infallibility of the Catholic Church that compiled the New Testament then you will have to claim the New Testament is invalid and wrong.

[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

God Bless! Jim

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