Sketch said: So, you are comparing the Catholic Church with the Devil? Wow.
They could be believers but if so in a very, very dark place needing the light of the gospel .
We know the Devil as a lying spirit has no form and therefore must work through the
things of men as that seen in order to make the
things of God not seen to no effect. Which the Holy Spirit calls
offensive in Mathew 16.
When mankind performs that kind of ideology (oral traditions of men) as the
things of men . Christ says it
offends our God not seen .
Peter, influenced by the devil was forgiven of His blasphemy against the Son of man , Jesus . Today because the one time demonstration is over .Peter's blashemypmy against the Holy Spirit would no be forgiven .
Personally, if I was to try and develope a daysman as a infallible fleshly mediator, a umpire set between God not seen and man seen . I would chose Paul or John, surely not the serial blasphemer who again and again denied the true authority of God not seen .
Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto
Peter,
Get thee behind me,
Satan: thou art an
offence "unto
me": for thou savourest
not "the things that be of
God", but
those that be of men. Mathew 16:22-23