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Papacy means “Father”: Jesus said: “Call no man
your father upon the earth, for one is your father, who is in
heaven.” Matthew 23:9.
When Peter denied the word of God, Jesus
rebuked him for denying the faith of Jesus: Jesus
said to Peter: “Get behind me, Satan; you are an offense
unto me, for you savor not the things that be of God, but
those that be of men.” Matthew 16:23.
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Peter taught us not to follow any man on
earth, but, instead, that we can be born again
into the kingdom of God by the word of God
alone, which “word of God” the papacy rejects:
“Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, ‘We
ought to obey God rather than men.’” Acts 5:29. Peter said
that we are “being born again. . . by the word of God, who
lives and abides forever.” 1 Peter 1:23.
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Peter did not allow anyone to worship him:
“And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell
down at his feet and worshiped him. But Peter took him up,
saying, ‘Stand up; I myself, also, am a man.’” Acts 10:25,
26.
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Through a leap of faith in themselves, Catholicism
links itself to Peter, but Jesus said to
those who claimed to be Abraham’s descendants:
“If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works
of Abraham.” John 8:39. What were the works of Abraham?
“Abraham obeyed my voice, kept my charge, my commandments,
my statutes, and my laws.” Genesis 26:5. If the
papacy was truly Peter’s children, they “would do the works
of” Peter, and be “born again by the word of God,” instead
of rejecting “the word of God.” 1 Peter 1:23; John 3:7.
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The papacy claims that his priests have the
ability to forgive sins: “But there were certain of the
scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts: ‘Why
does this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive
sins, but God only?’” Jesus said: “You may know that the
son of man [“God with us”] has power on earth to forgive
sins.” Mark 2:7, 10. God alone truly can forgive sins, because
God alone can read the heart: “For the Eternal Creator
[“God with us”] sees not as man sees, for man looks on the
outward appearance, but the Eternal Creator looks on the
heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7. “All power has been given unto me
[Jesus, not the papacy] in heaven and in earth.” Matthew
28:18.
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Professing infallibility, the papacy claims the right to
change the law of God to suit his own purpose, changing the
seventh-day Sabbath to the first-day Sunday of Babylonian sun
worship idolatry. By doing this he exalts himself above
God, and thus infers that God is fallible.