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1 | What separates Evangelicals, Catholics? | Rom 3:28 | Brian.g | 10066 | ||
Each of us has made decisions, which, to an outsider may look as though we made a mistake in judgement. When others fully understand the circumstances by which our decisions were made, the decisions may seem more justifiable. We cannot judge the quality of the decisions made over the past 2,000 years. The Church was living and surviving in a different world than it lives in today. At times, the Church was fighting many battles and different battles, that can't even be imagined today. We must have enough faith in God that God was keeping an eye on things and if He felt things were getting to far out of hand, that He would step in - as He has done in the past. Jesus did warn that the victories of the Pope and the Church would be victories for God and the losses suffered by the Church would also be the losses of heaven. 19 ""I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.'' I think Jesus knew what he was doing when made Peter the first in the line of Popes. |
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2 | Evangelicals and Catholics | Rom 3:28 | Hank | 10316 | ||
Brian.g, this is not a post inviting a debate with you regarding the Roman Catholic faith. I won't do that. It is rather about a few questions concerning it on which I invite your answers. (1) Since the verses in Matthew 16:18,19 seem to keep popping up in relation to the papacy, are these the key verses, the proof text if you will, on which you and your fellow Catholics base your belief that Jesus appointed Peter the first pope of the Roman Catholic church?...... (2) If Jesus did appoint Peter the first Pope, where does the Bible say this plainly? (I can't see it as saying this in these two verses of Matthew 16) If the doctrine is derived from these two verses, can you shed more light on how it came to be so interpreted from them?...... (3) Whence comes the idea that Jesus made Peter the first in line of the popes; how is this seen as the intention of Jesus?...... (4) Since Peter was an Apostle of our Lord, were the "keys of the kingdom of heaven" not meant for Peter? How can it be inferred that the keys were to be passed down through the ages by a succession of popes? (5) How does the Catholic Church explain the doctrine of the infallibility of the pope? Isn't he a man and therefore fallible?...... (6) On what grounds do they justify the praying to various canonized saints instead of to the Father in Jesus' name?....... I recognize that there are six questions, and you might wish to address each one as a separate post. In any event, I think that your answers, on which I believe you will make every effort to be clear, objective, and complete, will be an instructive addition to the other resources available on the forum, and I thank you in advance. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Evangelicals and Catholics | Rom 3:28 | Brian.g | 10331 | ||
As I prepare my response and in order to assist my response, will you give me your understanding as to what exactly 'the keys of the kingdom of heaven'are | ||||||
4 | Evangelicals and Catholics | Rom 3:28 | Hank | 10367 | ||
Brian, I await your response to the questions and don't see how my understanding of the phrase "keys of the kindgom of heaven" would assist you at this time. --Hank | ||||||