It is a sin to call Priests father

Wrong sweetie but continue

It is also a sin to call your father your father by that logic

@Spydig Thats middle man, which dosent exist

@Spydig I dont call my father father

You’re both Baptists?

I am yes

I am not trying to make the father meme

I have a genuine question

All people who are saved are saved by God’s grace alone. That grace is given to us upon our baptism. We can lose/reject that grace by committing mortal sin, and regain it in the sacrament of penance

What's your question?

If you are baptized and stray from God's path

My question is how much of the Apostle's power (specifically the Pope) do their successors inherit

You will still be thrown in the lake of fire

And if that power is not the full Apostolic power why the Pope is then to be considered special among other saved people

Well, they inherit their teaching authority and authority to bind and loose things.

1 Corinthians 14:19

**1 Corinthians 14:19 - Good News Translation (GNT)**

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<19> But in church worship I would rather speak five words that can be understood, in order to teach others, than speak thousands of words in strange tongues. ```

Obviously the apostles are unique in that they actually experienced Jesus in person in this life.

Does this not contradict latin mass?

What?

Right so it is the Pope alone who has unique powers?

The mass was only in Latin because it was universal that way.

Yea and vast majority do not understand

The common person could understand enough Latin up till the 1800s or so

It says it is better to say less but so that people understand

Rather than say much but people do not understand

And that’s why masses are said in vernacular now

And people still understand the mass even if it’s not in the language they speak

I'd rather be an ortho than a catholic tbh

Do not care

@Oboe Bishops in general have unique authority (to bind and to loose) but the Pope is the universal legislator, so his legal powers are even above those. But yeah, he has unique powers. Don't get me wrong though, these are basically legal/religious powers, not supernatural powers.

They say mass in Greek but anyways

@Phil With Frankincense No they dont but ok

So who gives the Bishops this power?

Some do

Some do not

They talk in the local tounge

Depends on your jurisdiction

Byzantine orthodox say mass in Koine Greek

The Power to loose and to bind was given exclusively to Peter, is it not?