What is power, who has power and how much does the Pope have?
>>1231672
>What is power
Something no true Christian should seek.
>how much does the Pope have?
He has the supreme whore-power of Babylon.
Power is the rate of work
>>1231676
When the Whore falls we read, "‘Rejoice over her, O heaven! Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets! God has judged her for the way she treated you’. . . . In her was found the blood of prophets and of the saints, and of all who have been killed on the earth" (18:20, 24). This shows that the Whore persecuted not just Christians, but apostles and prophets. Apostles existed only in the first century, since one of the requirements for being an apostle was seeing the risen Christ (1 Cor. 9:1). Prophets existed as a group only in the Old Testament and in the first century (Acts 11:27–28, 13:1, 15:32, 21:10).
Since the Whore persecuted apostles and prophets, the Whore must have existed in the first century. This totally demolishes the claim that Christian Rome or Vatican City is the Whore. Rome was not a Christian city at that time, and Vatican City did not even exist, so neither of them could be the Whore. Furthermore, Fundamentalists continually (though wrongly) claim that Catholicism itself did not exist in the first century, meaning that based on their very own argument Catholicism could not be the Whore!
Fundamentalists are fond of conjecturing that in the last days there will be a "revived Roman empire," such as the one that persecuted Christians in the first century. Yet they never draw the inference that this empire would be headed by a revived pagan Rome, with the bishop of Rome leading the Christian underground, just as he did in the first century.
Still, Revelation 18:20 and 18:24 prove that the Whore had to be a creature of the first century, which, in the Fundamentalist view, the Catholic Church was not. Thus, on their own view, their identification of the Catholic Church with the Whore is completely impossible! Only ancient, pagan Rome or apostate Jerusalem could possibly be the Whore.
>882 The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, "is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful."402 "For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered."403
-Catechism of the Catholic Church
>>1231672
>how much does the Pope have?
9001.
Pic related was a very powerful pope.
>>1231702
God's true church is described as the bride. The counterfeit bride is described as a prostitute, an impure church teaching false doctrines. This will be a church that many believe to be Christian but it is a counterfeit of Christianity.
Rome is the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.
>>1231754
>God's true church is described as the bride. The counterfeit bride is described as a prostitute
Interesting.
So this is why Christians so often speak about "The Whore", because it's like a satanic mirror image of the "bride"? Like with the Antichrist who is supposed to be the child of satan? Or is that just in the movies?
>>1231719
>le liberal pope that thinks divorce is okay, is a socialist, and thinks it's okay for fags to fuck each other up the ass maymay
I want people that don't know Italian, and get their information about the pope from out of context mistranslated singular """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""quotes""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" to fuck off
>>1231778
Satan has a church and it has a holy appearance when it's actually an abomination
>"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.” (2 Cor 11:13-15)
>>1231794
Go on...
>>1231719
>Jesus Christ
>welcoming to antichrist refugees
>>1231797
You don't understand the passage which you just quoted. It is about Islam, not the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
>>1231849
>One
>Holy
>Catholic
>Apostolic
>Church
>>1231867
>But, even the Church itself by itself, because of its marvelous propagation, its exceptional holiness, and inexhaustible fruitfulness in all good works; because of its catholic unity and invincible stability, is a very great and perpetual motive of credibility, and an incontestable witness of its own divine mission.
Vatican I, Session 3, Chapter 3
>>1231891
Amen
>>1231672
Power is ability. Wealth, position, and charisma give power. The pope is moderately powerful, as his position allows him to influence lots of people, but he is much less powerful relative to what it meant to be pope back in the day, seeing as a call for holy war isn't feasible (inb4 deus vult memesters).
