Roman Catholicism

This brief presentation reviews Saint Peter as the Rock and first head of the Church on Earth.

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[3Michael82]

Look at what happens to the church of Christ when there is no pope people just go off and do what ever they feel like, that is why their are 33000 different Churches in the world. Look at history the big brother bishop was always in Rome. I Bet Muslims are rubbing their hands together divide and rule? I think we should all grow up.

[NadNareek]

@3Michael82 After the New Testament was written we find no word from Rome until Victor decides to excommunicate Christians who did not obsere Easter when he did. Irenaeus had to rebuke him. Read Robert Eno "Rise of the Papacy" who was a theologian church historian at Catholic University.

[x362436]

I wonder if a knowledge of the original languages would help you. I'm not saying you're wrong but that working from an English translation is probably not the best idea.

Learning Hebrew and Greek would not be easy but might be necessary for a true understanding.

[NadNareek]

I trust that others know greek and hebrew better since it is not my life's work, so I refer to all different translations

[CBALLEN]

"Jesus didn't write a single thing contained in the NT. The NT is the product of an Ecumenical Council."

The early disciples used the scripture we use today,they were not ignorant of what was to be canonized.The council mainly dealt with issues like the Gnostics and other heretical issues.

[NadNareek]

circumcision was done usually as an infant; who is created perfectly?

[x362436]

The idea of circumsision is ridiculous anyway. If God wanted to identify them as his chosen people, he could have done it in a way that would have been obvious without a guy pulling down his pants and displaying his genitalia. Even so it shouldn't have been necessary for them to do it themselves. God didn't create them perfectly the first time, in his own image? Body modification shouldn't be necessary.

[NadNareek]

The future perfect is correct "shall have been bound," and this fits other scripture that says the Holy Spirit informs the apostles what truth to communicate, not the other way around.

[NadNareek]

The NT books were already in circulation from the beginning long before Damasus as Justin Martyr testifies concerning the memoirs of the apostles and writings of the prophets. There is the Muratorian canon and also Tatian's Diatessaron, etc, etc. The early Christians were taught:

1 John 4:1

"Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world."

[NadNareek]

Those appointed after the apostles were the local plurality of elder/bishops in every church, and we have the method of selection and the qualifications given in letters to Timothy and Titus. There was no hierarchy in the early church. Even Clement and Jerome who translated the NT into Latin, said the same: elders WERE the bishops; see also Acts 20 re the Ephesian elder bishops and Phillipians 1:1 that mentions only "bishops and deacons."