Isaiah45_9;12464672]The President analogy works to what I’m presenting.
And this the whole problem with your presentation, forcing the Church to become your democracy which She never is. She is a hierarchy with a King and His Vicar on earth Peter.
Until you accept this first century divine revelation, your democratic view contradicts the first four hundred years of the Persecuted Catholic Church with an age the Church is set free from persecution laws, It is here the church councils to settle internal matters infecting the Eastern Church when the Western Church never has such internal problems with the Apostolic faith or Apostolic Authority.
The President can be removed, whereas the Pope cannot.
If the Catholic Church was ruled under a secular power as her leader, the Emperor could depose his popes. But Jesus is our King and Lord, and only Jesus has the power to remove Peter, because only Jesus gives His keys and authority to Peter. Your democratic view of the church never works here.
Now if Peter suspects a wolf in the flock, Peter alone has the divine authority to bind and loose that wolf on the earth and expose the wolf. A Pope never has the power to remove a Bishop from his valid holy orders. You give to much power to the Pope here, because the Pope never has any powers to put asunder whatever God has joined together.
Do you know how difficult it is for a valid Bishop to be deposed or excommunicated? The Pope never operates on the whim.
Your view once again contradicts Jesus. If you knew how difficult it is to depose a valid Bishop, when Peter is commissioned by Jesus to bring back his brethren when they fall away. There are reasons for why certain Church documents are written the way they are, and you have not presented any of them here.
The Pope is commissioned to tend and feed Jesus flock, if it means removing wolves from the flock and exposing them at the cost of the Pope’s life. History proves the Popes have faithfully protected Jesus flock from such wolves. Yet your view would suffer the flock, to wait for a democratic vote. When a wolf enters the flock, the wolf wastes no time in consuming these little ones.
The Conciliar model of Church government is seen in Scriptures and in the Living Tradition of Church history. Where a Bishop is amenable to be deposed or excommunicated by the Church as a Whole. Whereas that is no longer possible for the Pope (After the Great Schism).
How do you think Peter excommunicated wolves from the flock prior the East Conciliar Church canons were invented after the persecution of the Church was lifted? I will give you a clue, your cannons never existed yet.
That Apostolic model Jesus places upon Peter has never left the Popes even while under persecution and the cost of their martyrdom.
Poster’s here have presented a marvelous amount of Catholic faith expressed from sacred scripture and sacred Tradition that supports a living Tradition of recognizing Jesus as our King and Peter as His Vicar on earth.
The Catholic faith hopes and lives on God’s never failing providence over Peter and the Church. The Popes authority over the flock that; Jesus gives him to feed and tend, relates to the Apostolic deposit of faith and morals practiced unchanged in the body of Christ. Peter does not reach into secular governing powers or usurping other apostolic sees’ authority to himself as it is falsely claimed by a misinterpretation of Church canons.
If you read a Church canon and it places fear in you; then you are misinterpreting Church’s canon’s. Time appears to be your precedence to refute later Church canon’s. These canons address their present events to tend the sheep (bishops) and protect the lambs so that their feeding does not get changed or infected.
Please look into the current events to which these canons reveal themselves first, before you start making false claims to the Whole of the Church.
Have you really read the Catholic posters post’s here, without reservation, on what they present by their faith in Jesus Christ made Peter the head of the Church. Who are holding to scripture and sacred Tradition for 2000 years of Catholic faith unchanged, not just a recorded history from the 5th century to the 11th century. When the Bishop of Rome is present in the beginning of this history when others are not and who is present in every age to the present.
No one really addresses your thousand year theory, so I post by introducing you to a reality which your view misses. I take it when ask for sources on this subject you are not read here? So I tread lightly here so as to hand you the Rock humbly and not with any negative recourse.
Peace be with you
