Luther and Calvin agree:
Every man is free to decide who is pope for him, and who is not.
And if he decides wrongly, what does that matter?
Personally, I am persuaded Ibranyi is correct: There hasn’t been a pope in 1,000 years (and there won’t ever be another one).
I really can’t see any problems with that:
940 years from now, all today’s sedes will share the same batshit crazy theory they ridicule in their brother today.
Terrible analogy.
Sean, as I said, in practice, R&R’s do the EXACT same things sedes do. For some reason you have decided to draw the line at the question of the Pope as going too far (why?).
R&Rs think it is acceptable to denounce their church’s
1) ecuмenical councils
2) universal liturgy
3) Sacraments
4) theology
5) canonizations
6) canon law
And basically anything YOU don’t like.
But when someone asks how a false religion can come from the authority of Christ, you go berserk.
You’ve made plenty of your own “private judgments”, Sean.