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Straw man, nobody said they were. Paul made Timothy and Titus bishops, told them to make new bishops, and to teach the new bishops to make new bishops themselves. He started Apostolic succession. Traditions who have continued to celebrate this sacrament of Holy Orders are the ones obedient to...

That's a total straw man and red herring but OK.

Against 31 reasons to reject the jab, here is 1 reason to not reject the jab: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/23/politics/trump-vaccine-covid-effectiveness/index.html Emphasis in the original.

Of course. That's just not what happened. As I said to RD above, Apostolic succession is not Apostolic replacement, and the Church was obeying the Apostle Paul's own written scriptures in continuing to celebrate this sacrament (Holy Orders).

It absolutely is there. Paul consecrated bishops and then instructed them how to consecrate new bishops themselves, and instructed them to instruct new bishops, to consecrate new bishops too. That's right in Scripture. Keep in mind that Apostolic succession is defined right in the OP in the...

That's not an argument nor is it a fallacy, it's just factual; a true proposition.

Mr. Foreman values chastity, and finds sexual perversion ( ΠΟΡΝ) not only unethical but also tasteless. I would agree.

Is there some Protestant doctrine that isn't probable opinion? I mean there's no Protestant authority on doctrine, or on anything that the Bible may mean. Every Protestant doctrine has to be 'probable opinion,' because you can't validly appeal to any other authority, because there is no valid...

He's just begging the question; just declaring. I can do that too, and I don't need a PhD to do it either. Why listen to someone who's just assuming that his claim is true? He needed to do the same thing that needs to be done to my OP, if it's to be corrected. Some Protestant needs to show...

CORRECT. There are tons of Catholics who don't believe in the Real Presence, like @annabenedetti here. The fact of the matter is that the earliest Church uniformly believed in the Real Presence, and that Calvinist Protestants taught against it. As for Lutherans and 'high church' Anglicans...

Then if Matthew 18:20 is interpreted that way, then it meant Mass all along (all through history), and Mass is where 'breaking bread' occurred, Communion, where Christ when instituting the Eucharist said His words "this is My body . . ." You're making my point for me. I didn't suggest Matthew...

No, you're just Catholic; you're just not 'in full communion,' which is basically short hand for formal 'worthiness' (cf. 1st Corinthians 11:27 &29) to receive Holy Communion. There's nothing stopping you from attending Mass though.

" For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." That means Mass. Just like 'breaking bread' means Mass. Confer Hebrews 10:25 " the assembling of ourselves together" Because you examined yourself and your conduct convinces you; no moral or...

EENS true doctrine: If Jesus saved you you're Catholic (whether you're outwardly Catholic or not)

I believe the world was made in six days flat.

Sure. I was asked this a long time ago, and my answer's the same, even though I myself wasn't yet theologically Catholic, let alone a convert, way back then. We are spiritually and mystically one body, but there is great division and factions on the earth right now between us. But it needn't...

He is our High Priest forever, agreed?

Rejection of the Real Presence didn't have any credibility as an idea until the Reformation. That's almost 1500 years of zero disputation, so what's wrong with calling it the Protestant view, alluding to the Protestant Reformation, which is when Christians first started to entertain this...

My phone has a feature where when I dial 911 the GPS automatically turns on so they can find me if I need help.

His shed blood being payment for sin requires a liturgical framework in order to be valid, and not just some random death that was after the fact proclaimed to be fulfillment of prophecy. This framework is the New Covenant, not the Old, which of course didn't have any part of it concerned with...