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[Mason @MasonM2K01]

CHRIST IS KING 🙏

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@_aitseluy Ofccc!! You've got this Yule!!! 🦀💚🫂🦌

[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

"We have no record of a pope for 100 years after Peter died."

Tell that to St. Irenaeus.

Sure, nobody in the first century was issuing press releases for each new pontiff. But by A.D. 180, St. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, writing about a church 600 miles from his own, names every man who'd held Peter's chair, in order (Against Heresies, Book 3, chapter 3):

Linus
Cletus
Clement
Evaristus
Alexander
Sixtus
Telesphorus
Hyginus
Pius
Anicetus
Soter
Eleutherius

Irenaeus is writing 114 years after the apostles died. That's about the same length of time separating us from the Ford Model T. Try telling people the Model T came with a CD player and see how fast someone's grandmother corrects you. If the papacy were actually a late invention, Irenaeus's own readers (and the Gnostics who despised him) would've laughed him off the page.

"Peter also never served as supreme pontiff in Rome."

Peter signs off his own letter "from Babylon" (1 Pet. 5:13), which was the early Church's nickname for Rome under persecution.

Clement of Rome (named above), writing around A.D. 96, references Peter's martyrdom as something that happened "in our own generation." (1 Clement, chapter 5). That's living memory.

In his Letter to the Romans (A.D. 110), Ignatius of Antioch remarked that he could not command the Roman Christians the way Peter and Paul once did; such a comment makes sense only if Peter had been a leader, if not the leader, of the church in Rome.

And in 1968, archaeologists confirmed what Christians had claimed for 1,900 years: Peter's bones, beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica, in a tomb first-century believers had already marked as his. Historian Eamon Duffy calls this shrine "overwhelming evidence of a very early Roman belief that Peter had died in or near the Vatican Circus" (Saints and Sinners, p. 8).

"The Church was born in Jerusalem."

True! And Jerusalem had a single bishop too, James. "One city, one shepherd" was the pattern everywhere, including the mother church.

Peter's authority was never competing with Christ's. It's just the way he set it up.

[Mason @MasonM2K01]

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[Mason @MasonM2K01]

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@LucielNyx Oh wait, i just noticed a check beside the 10am one, so maybe i did hit the right one! Nevermind, sorryyy 😭

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[Trad West @trad_west_]

Father Chad Ripperger: "How is taxing a man more than what God wants not defrauding a worker of his wage?"

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@yulestia_ Oh that's a helmet!? I was kinda thinkin it was a Bowl 😭

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[Bishop @BishopJaxi]

Christ: "Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter… but the one who does the will of My Father." -Matthew 7:21

Paul: God "will render to each one according to his works." -Romans 2:6

James: "A man is justified by works and not by faith alone." -James 2:24

Hebrews: Christ is "the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him." -Hebrews 5:9

Ryan: "DON’T think your obedience is playing any part in getting you to heaven."

Christ and the Apostles taught that grace-filled obedience is necessary for final salvation.

So, should we trust in the gospel of Ryan? Or the gospel of Christ and the Apostles?