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Originally Posted by Bible-believer
I was reading this article,
<The PAPAL ENCYCLICALS IN THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT >
“Catholicism insists that it teaches the preaching of Christ, and only that. The Catholic believes that his beliefs are identical with those of the Apostolic Church without a jot or tittle changed.”
“Hence it is that the Catholic does not say in the first instance ‘What does the Book say?’ Rather he asks, ‘What does the teaching church say?’”
“This fundamental vision of the church causes the Catholic to look to the episcopate for doctrine because the Roman Catholic bishops are the authentic exponents of God’s message. This is no idolatry of the bishops or their primate, the Bishop of Rome, but it is only a consequence of the Catholic theory of the church.”
Do those doctrinal statements sound familiar to us?
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Sure, they sound familiar, and make no mistake, the Blendeds are an episcopate, living on the memory of their long dead Popes.
I grew up in the Catholic church hearing that there is “no idolatry,” and we believed that nonsense as they made us pray to all their statues. Kind of like believing the LC is in some way “L-O-C-A-L” after receiving yet another mandate from Cleveland or Anaheim.