You know what a gloss is, don’t you? It is something that was
not in the original document, but was added later by someone else. The title “Lord God the Pope” was a gloss, so by definition, it was not part of the official document.
"34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
“Gods” in this sense means judges (see Deut 1:17, Ex 21:6 and Psalms 82:6). The Pope is successor to the office of Peter who was given the authority to “bind and loose” - the power to judge in the Kingdom of God on earth. That does not say that the pope is to be worshiped, but rather that his judgment is to be followed.
I asked you for official Catholic documents. These are nothing of the kind, but are opinions of people who have no authority to speak for the Church.
That being said, what these quotes express is essentially true. The doctrines of the Catholic Church were handed down from the apostles, long before the New Testament was compiled in the 4th century. The doctrines of the Church are verified and taught in scripture, but the original source of our doctrines is the apostles themselves. If all the bibles in the world ceased to exist, the teachings of the Catholic Church could continue as always, because
we don’t derive our doctrines from someone’s interpretation of the bible as you do. Our teachings are the teachings of the apostles which were handed down to to the Church through their successors, the bishops.
The Church, not the bible, “is the pillar and foundation of the truth” (1 Tim 3:15). The bible is derived from the Church, not the other way around.
This was not a prophecy and it has nothing to do with the value of sacred tradition. It was a rebuke of the Pharisees who perverted sacred tradition (the Law of Moses). I could just as easily quote:
“And now, dear brothers and sisters, we give you this command in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ: Stay away from all believers who live idle lives and don’t follow the tradition they received from us.” - 2 Thess 3:6
That’s the problem with people trying to create their own churches based on their personal interpretation of the bible - you can quote the bible out of context to justify any belief you desire, from Henry VIII to Charles Manson. Why do you think there are thousands of “bible denominations” that all think they get their conflicting and opposing beliefs from the bible. I’ll stick with the teachings passed down from the apostles themselves through the Church - the pillar and foundation of the truth.
As does mine.
P.S.: I like the NLT, too.
"With regard to the power of priests over the real body of Jesus Christ,…we find that in obedience to the words of His priests–HOC EST CORPUS MEUM [This is my body]–God Himself descends on the altar, that he comes whenever they call Him, and as often as the call Him, and places Himself in their hands, even though they should be His enemies ?]. And after having come, He remains, entirely at their disposal; they move Him as they please, from one place to another; they may, if they wish, shut Him up in the tabernacle, or expose Him on the altar, or carry Him outside the church; they may, if they choose, eat His flesh, and give Him for the food of others…
"Thus the priest may, in a certain manner, be called the Creator of his Creator, since by saying the words of consecration, he creates, as it were Jesus in the sacrament, by giving Him sacramental existence, and produces Him as a victim to be offered to the eternal Father…
"‘The power of the priest’, says St. Bernadine of Sienna, ‘is the power of the Divine Person; for the transubstantiation of the bread requires as much power as the creation of the world.’…
“The priest holds the place of the Savior Himself, when, by saying ‘Ego te absolvo,’ he absolves from sin… To pardon a single sin requires all the omnipotence of god. The Jew justly said: Who can forgive sins but God alone? But what only God can do by His omnipotence, the priest can also do by saying, ‘Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis’ “I absolve you from your sins”]… [Pope] Innocent III has written: ‘Indeed, it is not too much to say that in a view of the sublimity of their offices the priests are so many Gods.’” Alphonsus de Liguouri, Dignity and Duties of the Priest (Brooklyn, NY: Redemptorist Fathers, 1927), pp. 26-36.
“I never invite an angel down from heaven to hear mass here. The is not the place for angels. The only person in heaven I ever ask to come down here is Jesus Christ, and Him I command to come down. He has to come when I bid him. I took bread in my fingers this morning and said: ‘This is the body and blood of Jesus Christ’, and He had to come down. This is one of the things He must do. He must come down every time I say mass at my bidding…I do it in obedience, reverence, homage, and adoration, but I do it, and when I do it, Christ must obey.” Roman Catholic Priest David S. Phelan, The Western Watchman (St. Louis: Western Watchman Publishing Company), June 10, 1915
“The Pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man, but as it were God, and the vicar of God…Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as King of Heaven and of earth and of the lower regions…The Pope is at it were God on earth,…chief King of kings,…to whom has been entrusted by the omnipotent God directions…of the heavenly kingdom.” Lucius Ferraris, “Papa,” article 2 in his Prompta Bibliotheca (“Handy Library”), Volume 6 (Venice, Italy: Gaspar Storti, 1772), pp. 26-29. Latin. Reprinted (Rome: Press of the Propaganda, 1899)
“All names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ, by virtue of which it is established that He is over all the church, all the same names are applied to the Pope.” Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, On the Authority of Councils (1619 edition), Volume II, book 2, chapter 17, p. 266
“…complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.” Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter “On the Chief Duties of Christians as Citizens,” dated January 10, 1890, translated in The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII (New York: Benziger, 1903), p. 193
“We [the Popes] hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” Pope Leo XIII, in and encyclical letter dated June 20, 1894, translated in The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII (New York: Benziger, 1903), p. 304
All of the above is blasphemy if nothing else. Please read the following:
"With a blush on my face, and regret in my heart, I confess before God and man, that I have been through the confessional plunged for twenty-five years in that bottomless sea of iniquity, in which the blind priests of Rome have to swim day and night.
"I had to learn by heart the infamous questions which the Church of Rome forces every priest to learn. I had to put these impure, immoral questions to women and girls who were confessing their sins to me. Those questions, and the answers they elicit, are so debasing that only a man who has lost every sense of shame can put them to any woman.
“Yes, I was bound in conscience, to put them to the ears, the mind, the imagination, the memory, the heart and soul of women and girls, questions of such a nature, the direct and immediate tendency of which is to fill the minds and hearts of both priests and pentinents with thoughts and temptations of such a degrading nature, that I do not know any words adequate to express them. Pagan antiquity has never seen any institution more polluting than the confessional. I have lived twenty-five years in the atmosphere of the confessional. I was degraded and polluted by the confessional just as all the priests of Rome are. It has required all the blood of the great Victim, who has died on Calvary for sinners, to purify me.” Father Charles Chiniquy, The Priest, the Woman, and the Confessional (Toronto: The Gospel Witness), pp. 67-68, quoted in Boettner, Roman Catholicism, p. 213.
