Shocking that you would draw papal succession from those verses. Terrible exegesis.
yeah.... maybe not "explicit" enough by unbiblical
sola Scriptura standards. However, if you were as schooled in scripture as you claim to be, you would know the Bible contains sufficient enough indication of apostolic succession. For example, St. Paul appears to be passing his office along to Timothy (1 Tim 6:20; 2 Tim 1:6, 13-14, 2:1-2, 4:1-6). Not only that, you should know that the "send" motif in Scripture is right to the point. again, for example: Lk.9:1-2, "And he . . . gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal." Jn.17:18,
"As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world." Lk.10:1-3, "After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to come. And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Go your way; behold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.” Jn.20:21, Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.” These latter passages imply that there are many others involved besides just the 70 (which is already an expansion upon the original twelve). This implies succession and perpetuity.
Gods grace and Gods word. Ephesians 2:8-9
You also may want to look at verse 10:
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Clearly works are not condemned... but instead are essential since we are created to do good works! It's just that these works, in and of themselves, without faith, do not save us.
Anti-protestant diatribe completely unfounded and bereft of veracity.
Whats sad, is your unwillingness to accept the truth... past and present.
News for you. It was not the RCC you know today. The RCC today would make even the hardcore pagans blush.
One mans opinion, nothing more. Although, I am glad to see you admitting it was the Catholic Church that compiled the bible.
I would feel sorry for you but you get what you ask for. Luke 11:13 Jehovah God is my Father. Yep that's right the Eternal God is my Father and He bids me to come boldly into His presence and have fellowship with Him.
Of course this is your personal interpretation of this passage. If I were to ask ten Protestants to interpret this passage, I'd most likly get ten differnt interpretations, all supposedly inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Utter folly. This is the kind of stuff that makes people question the intellect of someone who would utter such nonsense.
Lol! whats really imprudent, and makes me question peoples intellect is how they ignore the obvious! In Luke 11:5-13, Jesus' parable of the importunate and bothersome neighbor shows a worst case scenario of what might happen when an unexpected guest shows up in the middle of the night! The family awakens, unbolts the locked door to receive the guest, then washes the guest's feet, and the wife begins to prepare a meal. When the wife discovers that she has no bread to set before the guest, she prevails on her husband to go and get bread from a nearby family, who by now is also asleep with their door bolted shut. In a small village it would be easy for the wife to know who had baked bread that day. Bread was essential for a meal because it served as a utensil for dipping and eating from the common dishes. Asking for bread from one's neighbor was both a common occurrence and an expected favor. To refuse to give bread would bring shame because it was a sign of inhospitality.
You do understand Gods generosity towards us, don't you? If a neighbor can be imposed upon and coerced into giving bread in the middle of the night, will not God, our heavenly Father and provider, also treat us with kind and generous care no matter how troubling or inconvenient the circumstances might appear? Jesus states emphatically,
How much more will the heavenly Father give! St. Augustine of Hippo (340-425 AD) reminds us that "God, who does not sleep and who awakens us from sleep that we may ask, gives much more graciously." The Lord Jesus assures us that we can bring our needs to our heavenly Father who is always ready to give not only what we need, but more than we can ask. God gives the best he has. He freely pours out the blessing of his Holy Spirit upon us so that we may be filled with the abundance of his provision. Do you approach your heavenly Father with confidence in his mercy and kindness towards you?
Well Jesus did breathe into the disciples present the Holy Spirit. At this moment they were born again and sealed into an eternal inheritance. It is not in the context of the passage to grant authority to the disciples authority over other men. This is the corrupt desire for power that has drawn the RCC away form truth and prepared her for destruction.
Again, one mans opinion with no proof or competent evidence to back it up. Yawn.....
Yawn...written by men and contradicted by Gods word.
Again, nothing to back this up
Among the many things I might be thinking not the least of which is how can you fall for this stuff??? One mediator between God and man. Jesus Christ not the priest or the pope or any other man.
Lol!!! It may be much to your surprise, the Catholic Church actually acknowledges Christ to be our one and absolutely unique mediator who alone can reconcile us to the Father in a strict sense. The Incarnation corresponds to mediation in the order of being, and the Redemption (remission of sin and conferral of grace) is mediation morally. This kind of mediation is incommunicable. No one but the Savior unites in himself the divinity, which demands reconciliation, and the humanity, which needs to be reconciled.
Christ is our one mediator/intercessor, yet, St. Paul commands
all Christians to be intercessors/mediators. Then notice in 1Timothy 2:5, the first word in verse five: “
For there is one God and one mediator…” And then in verse seven he says, “
For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle.” What is an apostle if not a mediator? The very definition of apostle, according to Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, is “a delegate, messenger, one sent forth with orders.” That’s an essential part of what a
mediator is. In short, St. Paul says we are all called to be mediators
because Christ is the one mediator and
for this reason he was called to be a mediator of God’s love and grace to the world!
Why are the prayers of the RCC unanswered? Because they do not know and are not known of God.
Tisk.... Tisk.... This statementis so doltish, it doesn't warrant a responce.
Debatable
Pax Christi
"For he has looked upon his handmaid’s lowliness;behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed. ---Lk.1:48
