Cringeworthy Debate between James White and Jose Ventilacion

[Duane1966]

Seeing as one challenger already backed out I really appreciate your acceptance.

I already found it interesting. That is why I brought it up.

So let us start then and move further from there. I say that canon shows that universal jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome was not accepted by Africa. In other words they told Rome to mind its own business.

Guess that can be the first point for what I expect to become a long discuss ion

For some reason I think you and I already had a discussion on this topic. No matter. I want to make sure we are discussing the same canon. Is the canon you are referring to?

Canon 17.

That any province on account of its distance, may have its own Primate

It seemed good that Mauretania Sitiphensis, as it asked, should have a Primate of its own, with the consent of the Primate of Numidia from whose synod it had been separated. And with the consent of all the primates of the African Provinces and of all the bishops permission was given, by reason of the great distance between them.

 

[Duane1966]

Seeing as one challenger already backed out I really appreciate your acceptance.

I already found it interesting. That is why I brought it up.

So let us start then and move further from there. I say that canon shows that universal jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome was not accepted by Africa. In other words they told Rome to mind its own business.

Guess that can be the first point for what I expect to become a long discussion

One further question.

In your mind, would Africa not accepting the universal jurisdiction of the pope, mean that universal jurisdiction in reality did not exist?