Your opinion is duly noted.
Perhaps you might one day see fit to share with us why you think that.
This symbolic depth to the Catholic Tradition that ChurchAuthority has gifted us with reminds me of a Star Trek episode of people who only knew how to communicate in metaphor and symbol.
"Shaka with arms open wide" or something like that.
You said that Church Authority has given us? so Church Authority is your Authority?
[h=3]Hebrews 8[/h]New King James Version (NKJV)
[h=3]The New Priestly Service[/h]8 Now
this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, [SUP]
2 [/SUP]a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
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3 [/SUP]For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore
it is necessary that this One also have something to offer. [SUP]
4 [/SUP]For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; [SUP]
5 [/SUP]who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, “See
that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” [SUP]
6 [/SUP]But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.
My only Authority is God through Christ the Son
[h=3]Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified[/h][SUP]
11 [/SUP]And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. [SUP]
12 [/SUP]But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, [SUP]
13 [/SUP]from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. [SUP]
14 [/SUP]For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
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15 [/SUP]But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
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16 [/SUP]“This
is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” [SUP]
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then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” [SUP]
18 [/SUP]Now where there is remission of these,
there is no longer an offering for sin.