Eastern Orthodoxy is the only way to do that as the franks (“rcc”) defected from the faith nearly a thousand years ago. The Protestants (replete with heresies) issued out of the franks not the Orthodox. Very telling fact.

@@betaweighted6841 I believe it is there before the divide of Catholic and Orthodox Christians and flows through both, besides the doctrinal additions that have created divisions. Like I feel there can be some type of conversation between the Orthodox and Catholic Church that possibly would bring it all back to One Holy Catholic Apostolic Orthodox(straight teaching) Church. I wonder what Jesus would tell us to do?

​​@Spirit1443 there seemed to be a lot more conversation between the Catholic and Orthodox Church during the papacy of John Paul ii. I really hope for church Unity and the uniting of our church at some point. To breathe with both lungs. I don't think our present papacy is helping

Amen! On X there's some, I'm sharing these hopefully to them. They need a vacation too ✝️👑🕊️💜🙏

Study the Bible. 1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” Luke 1:46-47 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, 47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 1 Corinthians 10:4 “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.” 1 Samuel 2:2 “There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God. Mark 7:7. “Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” 2 Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Jesus said go and sin no more.

There were Christians in Rome before Peter arrived, but if they had not been appointed by an Apostle, their leaders were not bishops.

Where do you get the name of the 70 from. Cephas is another name for Peter I thought.

The verse says "I say to you, YOU are 'rock', and on THIS rock I will build my Church." (Capitalization my own. English bibles translate the first "rock" as Peter or Cephas, but leave the second 'rock' untranslated. It is true that Jesus is also the rock foundation of the Church, but in this verse we see that he shares this authority in a privileged way to Peter, specifically. He also shares this authority with the other Apostles in a privileged way, but Peter is mentioned specifically as receiving a share in this role of being the foundation of the Church, indicating he has a unique role amongst even the other apostles. It would take serious interpretative gymnastics to say that Peter is not given a unique role in leadership in Matthew 18 when Jesus specifically tells him "I give you the keys to the kingdom; what you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and what you loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven."

@13gladius28 - He may have been uneducated in the sense that he had not trained formally under a rabbi, but there is no indication that he was illiterate. Jewish boys in general were taught to read and write, just because Peter was a fisherman, a plethora of evidence suggests he was well educated in the Scriptures and in the requisite skills to study them. Peter shows great familiarity with the Torah and Old Testament scriptures throughout his new testament sermons. In Acts 6:2-3, Peter and the Apostles said that they could not neglect the Word of God (implied study and preaching of) to serve at table. He also composed multiple letters in the canon of Scripture. The link below contains a video of mine which provides a plethora of early church evidence from Jesus's lips and the early Church Fathers which counters the Protestant/orthodox perspectives you voiced in this comment: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eLaIZ6Rht6uZooU.htmlfeature=shared

Nope. I know the history better than anything you can provide. You're an indoctrinated liar

Nope.. You're an indoctrinated liar

Nope.. You're an indoctrinated liar

Are you a special kind of fool, Irenaeus Clement of Alexandria and other early church fathers in the second century upward testified that Peter was in Rome and died there, 1Peter5-13 himself say he is in Rome in his epistle, and what does Latin have to do with him not being in Rome, you left the historical church to probably follow some heretic protestant sets

Peter didn't need to speak Latin to preach. The international language back then was koine Greek, the language Peter used to write his letters. Also, one of the early gifts of the Holy Spirit was the hability to speak many languages, so I don't see why he couldn't be blessed with that. Peter was indeed in Rome, as deduced from his letter, and was its Bishop, as told by historians and traditions; you can't simply deny it just because. You also seem to confuse papacy as understood in Medieval Ages, but its fundation was always what Our Lord said about Peter. Celibacy for priests was made mandatory (only in the West) centuries later, there is no intrinsic problem of a Pope/priest being married.

​@@quentandilI left the Roman Catholic church because many of their teachings are not from God but are doctrines of men and I know many people who saw the same errors in the church and left after God brought them out into a Born Again believers personal relationship with him . Churches don't save you . Only the Blood of Jesus Christ Almighty can wash away sin. Not man made Folly .

@@edge2sword186 And I joined the Catholic Church because I need the Body and Blood of Jesus to be saved. You completely ignored my response. Please, do not reject the Church by that anti-reason perspective of salvation, rejecting 2000 years of Our Lord's Grace acting in history. Our Lord was a Man, the Bible was compiled by men, you were baptized by a man, so do not try to reject the Church's teachings by simply repeating "it is man made".

Protestants are heretics! please repent! St. Ignatius an apostle of St. John: (107 A.D.) “Where there is Jesus Christ there is the CATHOLIC church.” (Letter to the Smyrnaeans 8:2) (110 A.D.) “Repent and return into the unity of the church, follows a SCHISM he shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.” (Avoid Schismatics 3:2, 3:3, 4:1, 4) (110 A.D.) St. Ignatius: “Those who hold heterodox do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of Jesus and are perishing.” (Letter to the Smyrnaeans 6:2, 7:1) (253 A.D.) Bishop Cyprian: “Throne of Peter, the chief church, the Romans.” (Epistle 54:14) “One Church, one chair… another altar cannot be set up, nor a new priesthood… whoever gathers elsewhere scatters.” (Letters 43[40]:5) “He that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.” (Mathew 12:30) “Serpent (Satan) invented heresies and schisms he might corrupt the truth.” (De Catholicae Ecclesiae Unitate 1, 3-4) (e.g., orthodox, protestants etc.,) (367 A.D. St. Optatus): “Rome… sat Peter, the head of all the Apostles… ONE Cathedra (Chair)… Apostles might claim separate Cathedras, he would already be a schismatic and a sinner.” (Against the Donatists, Book 2 Chapter 2) (CCC 552) (354-430 A.D.) St. Augustine: “The one true Church, the catholic Church, fighting all heresies.” (A Sermon to Catechumens on the Creed, 14) (412 A.D.) St. Augustine: “Whoever is separated from this Catholic Church the wrath of God rests upon him.” (Letters 141:5)