Gaius Americanus 🇻🇦

Can you think of a dogmatic teaching from the Church approving of slavery as a practice? I can think of Papal Bulls approving of wars and enslavement. But, the entire idea of a Papal Bull is prudential in the first place. They are not then, now, or ever will be seen as ex cathedra statements on faith and morals. Infallibility, as we understand it, is theologically detached from what Pope Leo is talking about in this specific context.

@hyde62056 The Catholic Church claims that it’s infallible on matters of faith and morals. Logically, this can’t be true as stated, if it ever reversed itself… which it has. RCC can never speak 💯% infallibly. They can get it right, but that has nothing to do with their own authority, God

RCC repents of slavery! If the Catholic Church is eternal and infallible, how can an institution infallibly interpret scripture to say that slavery is OK… And also infallibly also interpret scripture to say slavery is not OK. They can’t. The Catholic Church is not infallible.

@trinity_314 Chapter and verse, or you lack authority to declare it.

Catholics you need to leave the RCC. Your soul depends on it. Where you spend eternity depends on it. Please wake up before it is too late. You just need to follow Jesus and His word. It’s that simple🙏🏼✝️

I agree! As long as you include the four preceding verses. 1 Timothy 2:1-5 (ESV) 1 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 3 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus 1 Timothy 2:5

@Sir_Drork I get it! Could you imagine if I went around judging my real life Protestant friends by how @farmingandJesus behaves online? I could, but it would be a sign that it was time for me to turn my phone off and touch grass!

@EricMFriel I actually have a good few Roman Catholic friends, it's why I bothered to make a carveout at all

@grok @Mother649907 @Jesse55875644 What happens next?

**This clip is from the 2017 French film *Hostile* (directed by Mathieu Turi).** It's the emotional ending where Juliette (Brittany Ashworth) realizes the creature stalking her is Jack (Grégory Fitoussi)—the man she loved—transformed by the apocalypse. The "monster was someone she loved" twist hits hard.

Hostile: The monster was someone she loved 😭.

@Mother649907 @Jesse55875644 @grok @grok , I am Premium. What movie is it?

@Jesse55875644 @grok what movie is this?

You lying piece of shit

@AlexTran677026 Ralph Fiennes was indeed perfect for that role.

Amon Göth in Schindler’s List (1993) may be one of the most terrifying villains in film history. What makes him so frightening is not intelligence, power, or theatrical evil — but cruelty without reason. In the haunting “Balcony Hunt” scene, Göth casually shoots prisoners from his balcony as if human life means nothing. One moment calm, the next violently unpredictable, he turns fear into something constant. Amon Göth is terrifying because he doesn’t feel like a movie villain. He feels real.

@nooooooooticer @AlexTran677026 He's dead. Cope!

@AlexTran677026 Just remember that this entire movie from beginning to end is complete fiction.

@jonathanplumb @Pontifex If there is no source for the creation of all things from nothing, then there would not be a God with a capital G. No source in eternity from which all comes. So, what is it? An infinitely old universe which has entropy? That is.......not possible! 😆 Something else?

@Pontifex Humanity wasn’t “created” by God. Humanity was “organized” by God. There’s a universe of difference between the two.

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

@KahuM90934 The OP blocked you. Not me.

@EricMFriel I literally had to take a screenshot of the last thread.

@EricMFriel should you want to discuss what YOU can't comprehend quit blocking what you don't like.

@KahuM90934 Sure, but I also want to figure out why you think I blocked you.

@EricMFriel OK now want to ask the question again?

@KahuM90934 Dude, I never blocked you.

Pharisees look like this today. Their dark hearts can only comprehend physical/temporal generalities, and will attack [or block] anyone speaking about transcendent realities.

"The verse is clear," has not solved a single biblical argument for the entire time I have been on X. The mechanism is the authority to bind and loose. That authority to bind and loose is out there somewhere. If you find a good Protestant candidate for that authority, let me know!

@EricMFriel @BishopJaxi Yet the verse was clear. Many are claiming what they are not.

Protestantism has no mechanism to stop this, because private interpretation is the system. The logical end of Protestantism is DIY Christianity where isolated narcissists with a study Bible, accountable to no authority beyond their own opinions, appoint themselves as the final authority on Christianity.

@KahuM90934 @BishopJaxi He was not asking for a rationale against this kind of thinking. But, a mechanism by which authority to bind and loose is declared. Commandment to use authority with benevolence does not undo that some authority exists which can bind and loose (Matt 16; Matt 18).

But He said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles dominate them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘Benefactors.’ But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and whoever leads, like the one serving. I am sure you were demanding an answer in the most humble way.

@OpStCyprian Heaven literally opened and the Son of God took flesh to form it. I do not remember this happening in the 1500s.

Christianity begins by saying Judaism got corrupted. Then it asks you to trust the Jewish Scriptures.

@Lilith_Atheist I have been admitted to Hospital about 4 times for various injuries or health emergencies. 3 of those hospitals are Catholic. One is a Naval Hospital.

That's why I'm an atheist.

@oliverburdick This is....... not correct bud.

If Earth were 4 inches closer to the sun, we would all burn up and die. If gravity was .1% stronger, every star would explode instantly. If the Universe expanded 1 mph faster, human life would be impossible. None of this is random. God is real, and his design is perfect.