2006-12-04 05:48:42 · 14 answers · asked by firelily88 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
John 21:15-17 states:
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."
He then said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."
He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed that he had said to him a third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." (Jesus) said to him, "Feed my sheep.
Matthew 16:17-19 states:
Jesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
The Catholic Church believes the Lord made Simon alone, whom he named Peter, the "rock" of his Church. He gave him the keys of his Church and instituted him shepherd of the whole flock.
The Pope is the senior pastor of 1.1 billion Catholics, the direct successor of Simon Peter.
The Pope’s main roles include teaching, sanctifying, and governing.
With love in Christ.
2006-12-07 15:41:36 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, God chooses the Pope through the collective discernment of the Cardinals, bishops specially assigned to that ministry. The Pope is the embodiment of divine authority on earth. Jesus knew that truth is not possible without unity, and that unity is not possible without central authority. That is why He gave the keys to the kingdom (the universal symbol of supreme authority) to one man and his direct successors. And that is why His Church remains united in teaching, united in belief and united in worship after 2,000 years, while manmade Christian tradition that rejects the authority of the Vicar of Christ has fragmented into thousands of conflicting, contradictory denominations in a few hundred years. No real authority means no possible unity, which inevitably means conflicting beliefs; and conflicting beliefs means false beliefs, because truth cannot conflict with truth. It works so well when you do it God's way!
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2006-12-04 06:16:42 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pope is not chosen by God. He is chosen by a group of men called a conclave.
2006-12-04 05:51:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Church's teaching about the authority and ministry of the Pope within the Church places, also by the express will of Christ, that authority and ministry at the very center of her hierarchical structure. The universal authority of the Roman Pontiff, witnessed to throughout the history of Christianity and proposed as a dogma of faith by the Council of Florence in 1439,[19] was given a detailed dogmatic explanation by Vatican Council I in 1870 in its dogmatic constitution on the Church of Christ (Pastor aeternus). This document, in turn, was taken up and confirmed by Vatican Council II in 1964.
It is interesting to note that, before describing the content of this power and authority, Vatican I wished to underline its purpose and meaning in the Church according to the will of Christ. This authority exists so that 'the episcopate might be one and undivided and that the whole multitude of believers might be preserved in unity of faith and communion by means of a well-organized priesthood.'[20] 'In order that the episcopate itself might be one and undivided he (Christ) put Peter at the head of the other apostles, and in him set up a lasting and visible source and foundation of the unity both of faith and communion.'[21]
Within this basic framework the Church has given her teaching on the primatial authority of the Roman Pontiff in three well defined points: 1. the institution of the primacy in the person of Peter the apostle, 2. the perpetuity of the primacy through the principle of succession, 3. the nature of this primatial power.
We will now study each of these three points in turn.
1. Institution of the primacy in the person of the apostle Peter.
It is a matter of faith that the blessed apostle Peter 'was constituted by Christ the Lord as the prince of all the apostles and the visible head of the whole Church militant' and 'that he received immediately and directly from Jesus Christ our Lord not only a primacy of honor but a true and proper primacy of jurisdiction.'[22] The Church affirms that this is witnessed to by 'the testimony of the gospel'[23] and is the 'very clear teaching of the Holy Scriptures.'[24]
The scriptural texts brought forward by the Council are the two following very well-known passages: a) this first is known as the 'text of the promise': Blessed are you Simon, son of Jonah, because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father who is in heaven. And now I say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven_ (Matthew 16:16-18); b) the second is known as the 'fulfillment text': Feed my lambs, feed my sheep (John 21:15ff).
An analysis of other numerous texts of the New Testament would show what precisely was the will of Christ regarding the humble fisherman from Galilee, how Peter afterwards exercised his primacy, and how conscious the other apostles and the first Christians were that Simon was at the head of the mission which Christ had entrusted to them all.[25]
2006-12-04 06:44:12 · answer #4 · answered by glen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pope is chosen by other men, Cardinals, who vote for the candidates, Cardinal themselves.
God is one of the caracter of middle eastern tales and legends. As other caracters of litterature works of fiction, he does not exist . Believing that legends caracters are "for real" is one of the symptom of schyzophrenic mental disorder.
2006-12-04 05:53:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pope is not chosen by God.
2006-12-04 05:50:46 · answer #6 · answered by godsapostolic 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
God of the Pope is Law: God on high in "heavens".
The only true God is Grace: higher God in "heaven".
Ppl recovering from gettin high speak of higher power.
The GRACE(GOD) of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
2006-12-04 05:57:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know God was on the comity that elected the pope.
2006-12-04 06:46:07 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The pope is not chosen by God.
The two have very little in common.
2006-12-04 06:01:45 · answer #9 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no hes not chosen by god, hes chosen by man. god did not come down to the current people and tell them, i put in charge this man to be your pope.
2006-12-04 05:51:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋