Message from @Eternal Entropy
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No it does not
that's malarky
just saying it does not does not make it so
Does Paul correcting Peter give Paul further power?
like there is good buhdist monks that fallow the code
Did they get the keys of heaven or the title of foundation of the church
Oh no
but there asshat ones too
Paul is alright
just like priests
Does James deciding the Council of Jerusalem give James more power?
A fellow equal
Think of
Brothers
And the pope is the eldest
FELLOW elder
He did not say "as your eldest"
he said "fellow elder"
A metaphor
The pope does allow other patriarchs to do as they wish
from another perspective
Deterioration of Christian Institutions
heading^
No one, including Peter himself, recognized Peter as the head of anything
OH NO LOOK WHAT I FOUND
Antiochs patriarch gave rome the first place
"some say"
Letter of ignatius
you wanna talk about what Saints had to say?
Okay
we can play that game
How about when St. John Chrysostom negated papal primacy?
This page is gold
if gold was made out of copper
perhaps
“The vitality of men’s belief in God,” Bahá’u’lláh has testified, “is dying out in every land; nothing short of His wholesome medicine can ever restore it. The corrosion of ungodliness is eating into the vitals of human society; what else but the Elixir of His potent Revelation can cleanse and revive it?” “The world is in travail,” He has further written, “and its agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned towards waywardness and unbelief. Such shall be its plight that to disclose it now would not be meet and seemly.”
This menace of secularism that has attacked Islám and is undermining its remaining institutions, that has invaded Persia, has penetrated into India, and raised its triumphant head in Turkey, has already manifested itself in both Europe and America, and is, in varying degrees, and under various forms and designations, challenging the basis of every established religion, and in particular the institutions and communities identified with the Faith of Jesus Christ. It would be no exaggeration to say that we are moving into a period which the future historian will regard as one of the most critical in the history of Christianity.
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