(March 23, 2014 at 5:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:The catholic church teaches that the pope has the keys of the kingdom and the power of binding and loosing given to peter.
A fifth century doctrine first put forward by Leo I who was trying to assert his authority while the world tumbled down around him.
not seeing the science in the called out ones built on a man, but a knowledge by 'revelation' of who first followers of Jesus understood Jesus built his called out ones on the knowledge of him as Son of YWHW/God, as the record has it, and revealed not by convincing arguements nor apologetics, but the father-parent God himself, only, as it is written (source being what it is)
and I read the "Ehrman" ...
and then
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https://www.google.com/search?q=ehrman%2...s&ie=UTF-8
and but
Derek Prince seems scientifically a bit more thorough,
but I have read him since 1976 and met three times-
just
seems a bit more scholarly by any comparison:
https://www.google.com/search?q=derek+pr...h&ie=UTF-8