Categorically refuted in Post #201 above.Show the records...there are none...
Categorically refuted in Post #201 above.
I DID answer---in the post which I cited. Try again.You still up to your old tricks after all these years? If I had a nickel for everytime you posted a link as your answer instead of answering, I could retire.
From the link:HERE you go.
It looks like Linus (along with Timothy) may have been converted by Paul personally, as Cletus/ Anencletus/ Anacletus and Clement were by Peter. So Peter was succeeded by a man who was personally converted to the faith by Paul, and Linus was succeeded by a man who was personally converted by Peter. Intriguing.And what are the deacons but imitators of the angelic powers, fulfilling a pure and blameless ministry unto him, as the holy Stephen did to the blessed James, Timothy and Linus to Paul, Anencletus and Clement to Peter?
I DID answer---in the post which I cited. Try again.
View attachment 23971I DID answer---in the post which I cited. Try again.
And there's your answer.NO, you referred top a post that had nothing but a link.
And there's your answer.
You're not genuinely interested in the answer, then, but are merely looking for others to hold up slogans and platitudes (apparently, that's all this forum is for, according to you) for you to take shots at. If you don't want to read a link, then don't read it. That merely says about you what we already know. But if you really want a full and meaningful answer about Catholic teaching, it's provided in the posts of myself and other Catholics on TOL, sometimes via a link, sometimes not.wow, so we are back where we started....I will say it again:
"After all these years you are still posting links instead of answers. If I had a nickel everytime you had a link answer for you, I could retire."
People don't come here to debate with your tiresome links. People don't have time to plod through your bookshelves. you need to learn to answer for yourself in the body of the post, without links.
You're not genuinely interested in the answer, then, but are merely looking for others to hold up slogans and platitudes (apparently, that's all this forum is for, according to you) for you to take shots at. If you don't want to read a link, then don't read it. That merely says about you what we already know. But if you really want a full and meaningful answer about Catholic teaching, it's provided in the posts of myself and other Catholics on TOL, sometimes via a link, sometimes not.
(It should also be noted that the link that Choleric is whining about was not directed to him in the first place, but to another member of TOL entirely. Again: If you don't want to read a link, then don't read it.)
Sorry, but your feeble attempt at an argumentum adsurdum fallacy just isn't going to work, since the sources I provide are hardly nine volumes long, but a mere few pages. Nice try, though.So, next time you spout off about your church, I will post a link to the history of the Christian church, by schaff and if you don't read all 9 volumes, you "just aren't really interested in the answer"
Looks like it's yours that's "ridiculous" (absurd) as is shown above.Your point is ridiculous.
Sorry, but your feeble attempt at an argumentum adsurdum fallacy just isn't going to work, since the sources I provide are hardly nine volumes long, but a mere few pages. Nice try, though.
Looks like it's yours that's "ridiculous" (absurd) as is shown above.
Really? Exactly how close was it to NINE VOLUMES ?You are again lying. That last link was more than a few pages.
I've spoken to plenty of people to whom I've recommended various sources of relevant information when it was pertinent. The genuinely interested and honest ones are grateful and eager to look into the material, and say thank you. The disingenuous and duplicitous ones resort to pedantically whining about having to read something, and to quibbling over trivialities---you know, like you do.If you were talking to a person, in person, you would have to actually speak to them, not constantly refer them to web pages.
Really? Exactly how close was it to NINE VOLUMES ?
I've spoken to plenty of people to whom I've recommended various sources of relevant information when it was pertinent. The genuinely interested and honest ones are grateful and eager to look into the material, and say thank you. The disingenuous and duplicitous ones resort to pedantically whining about having to read something, and to quibbling over trivialities---you know, like you do.
If a substantive and accurate answer requires more than a bumper-sticker slogan, then yes. If you're looking for T-shirt theology, you'll have to find someone else to complain to.So someone says, "why do you believe the rcc was started by Jesus Himself?" Your reply is "I'll give you a link."
If an substantive and accurate answer requires more than a bumper-sticker slogan, then yes. If you're looking for T-shirt theology, you'll have to find someone else to complain to.
In any case, your protracted whining rant has been noted: "I don't LIKE to read! Stop trying to make me THINK!" And my reply is the same as it was earlier: "If you don't like a particular link, don't read it." No one is forcing you to read a single thing on this forum. And I'm done reading these pathetically pedantic posts from you as well.
The first use of the phrase "Catholic Church" as a technical term to refer to that one historic Church founded by Jesus Christ himself in 33 A.D....
Here's something I found from the link:
Clement, 3rd bishop of Rome, remarks that "there is no real 1st century evidence that Peter ever was in Rome."
Thats completely untrue. You won't find anything in JW literature or in the Bible that supports this statement. Jehovahs Witnesses are not robots. If God required robots he would have created them.