“Suppressing the Truth by Wickedness”

John Thayer Jenson, you asked in Comment 271: I don’t see how this helps me to know which of us is right and which is suppressing the truth by his wickedness. I believe God’s Voice has told me the Catholic Church is His Body and men can be saved only through it; you believe – …

Paul ordained the second “pope”

Here is a primary source that will provide further illustration that the early church had no knowledge of any kind of “petrine primacy.” The “Apostolic Constitutions” was unknown in the West until the Middle Ages. Daniel O’Connor (“Peter in Rome”) dates the earliest form of the document in the early third century (that’s in the …

Irenaeus on Succession

Turretinfan has been following (and answering) Steve Ray’s “Questions for Bible Christians.” He answers Question #35, here: http://turretinfan.blogspot.com/2010/02/unloading-35-loaded-questions-for-bible_13.html He’s completed the series. Interestingly, #35 touches on “apostolic succession: Here’s the question, and here’s my comment: When did it become okay not only to disobey the Church’s leaders, but to rebel against them and set up …