By the way Catholicism is not christianity.
I'm not a Catholic but on what grounds do you make this judgement (even with a small 'c' for His name)?
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By the way Catholicism is not christianity.
....Besides, who (aside from the Pope) can actually say that my doctrines are any more false than your own?....
So if the Pope has the last word on doctrine - how come successive Popes have shown a different understanding of some Biblical concepts? It would appear some of them were as wrong as everyone else can be so why reject what others say. Popes can only be infallible until another Pope comes along and changes things, which immediately makes the previous office holder fallible, just as the rest of us are, and so it goes on and on.
Scripture tells us what God says. The popes have made to many errors to be trustworthy.
That's as may be, KL, but your previous post gave the distinct impression that the pope was the only one who could give definitive answers - Protestants can't. I was merely pointing out that that is patently not the case because if the Pope can be wrong it makes his judgements no better than anyone elses. Selective infallability is really no infallibiity - you are either infallible in every pronouncement or, potentially you are not at any time. You can't have it both ways.
Actually what would benefit everyone here would be to understand what church means in the scriptures..Catholicism does not say to trust the man, only the church.
I think a study on what "church" means in Catholicism would benefit everyone here.
If there never was a Pope I wonder if Christianity would have ever taken off. I mean, take Peter out of the equation and what happens?
Christianity can and will survive as long as God intends for it to survive. To think that it depends upon any church officeholder is to doubt the word of God and the power and purposes of God, even if we don't realize it.
But of course the church would survive if there were no Pope! The church never heard of such a position for hundreds of years after Christ--and these were the years in which the faith spread from Britain to India. Also, the fastest growing churches today are the ones that don't accept the Pope of Rome, so we can see that the question itself is rather far-fetched.
I have a hypothetical question for you.
What if God wanted a Pope for His church and for you to follow His church and you thought about it the way you do now?
There are always the the other Apostles, including my bro Paul. The RCs can have Peter.