Quo Vadis? said:
AgLiving06 said:
Quo Vadis? said:
AgLiving06 said:
Simply repeating a claim does not make it true or correct.
Christ did not "create the Roman Catholic Church." Christ created His Church. Roman Catholics are certainly within the broad definition of Christ's church, but they don't have a unique claim to anything.
And your second paragraph is just victim blaming, and especially ironic given your analogy to a marriage/broken home. It's really the child's fault the parents are fighting. It's the child's fault the parents want to kill him. Rome was broken.
However, I do enjoy pulling up Exsurge Domine though, because we get to see the pope's own words the "errors of Luther."
Exsurge Domine - Papal Encyclicals
Quote:
In virtue of our pastoral office committed to us by the divine favor we can under no circumstances tolerate or overlook any longer the pernicious poison of the above errors without disgrace to the Christian religion and injury to orthodox faith. Some of these errors we have decided to include in the present document; their substance is as follows:
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33. That heretics be burned is against the will of the Spirit.
Rome itself viewed the burning of heretics, not as problematic, not as an error, but the will of the Holy Spirit.
I hope we could at least find agreement that the pope was absolutely wrong in this claim and should rightfully be called out for theological and frankly human error.
I will repeat since you can't understand..Christ created the Catholic Church, and charged the Apostles to shepherd it, Peter foremost of all. Peter established the church in Rome, and passed his authority on for 2,000 years. There are many several apostolic sees, all have been established by Apostles, charged by Christ.
Ah yes the old Lutheran victimhood "the 1500 year old bride of Christ won't bow to the whim of an egotistical German monk, let's take our ball and go home".
Again, we know what Christ said about those who would lead children astray. Would you argue that having millstones thrown around the neck of heretics would be contrary to the will of the Spirit?
I will repeat what you can't understand..Christ created His Church. Luther, you, and I aren't beholden to the pope, but to Christ. Rome did not represent "the 1500 year old bride of Christ..." but a branch of christianity that had fallen into error. You continually fall into the error of believing that because the Church existed, it was a reflection of Rome. Rome, especially by the middle ages was not a reflection of the early church and its teachings, but something new that reinvented itself.
To your last point...are your now claiming Rome should continue to execute heretics? Since I certainly believe Luther and the Reformers were correct in their reforming of the errors of Rome, should I be burned at the stake as the pope wanted to do to Luther and others? You danced around it in your post, so please be clear.
Should I be burned at the stake?
When did it fall into error? As I've mentioned many times in the past, the oldest churches of Christendom that have been continually celebrating mass for over a thousand years before the reformation are Catholic or Orthodox. At which point did they change from "looking like the original church" to "falling into error"?
Your obstinate "I bow to no one" bs, sounds more like Satan's "non-Serviam" than anything remotely related to Christianity; and being obedient to Christ by severing yourself from the Church he instituted on his Apostles and charged with shepherding you feels counter productive.
Also, the effeminate hysterics behind the burning at the stake will hopefully be put to bed by my answer.
If I could end the heresy of Protestantism by burning you at the stake, I would do so. Given the fact that it seems at this point impossible to put Pandora back in her bottle, we do not have a state religion, it would be killing someone for no purpose; which is murder. I will instead have to be content with seeing the best and brightest continue to flee from Protestantism into the apostolic faith, while those looking for good music and to see a person jump a motorcycle through a ring of fire continue to defect to the Protestant novelty.
A specific date? That would be hard to pinpoint, but we can mostly track the rise of the pope from one of many bishops to an ecumenical bishop to the modern claims Rome made (which we can probably trace to the Great Schism).
But as I've pointed out in other posts/threads, much of Rome's theology, which is ironically really driven to be "anti-reformer" isn't nailed down until Trent.
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To your next point, you make a blatantly false claim. Nowhere have I claimed "I bow down to no one." That is BS, but that's you spouting BS that isn't true, correct, or accurate. I'm obedient to Christ and His Church. However, His Church is not the Roman Catholic Church exclusively or specifically as that organization was not established by the Apostles or any of that nonsense, but by men who came later.
It is nice though to see you admit you'd burn me and others. It's a great reminder of why Rome (thankfully) is not the Christian Church. It's a testament to how insecure Rome is and how fragile their faith is.
Your last sentence is just complete nonsense. Nobody on here is defending that kind of nonsense, but that you have resorted to that kind of petty language several times is a good indicator you know you're arguments are lacking.