Well I must admit I found myself agreeing (mostly) with the Pope. There’s a first time for everything I suppose…

Pope’s message about Christian division.

The problem I have is that I presume the Pope, like all his predecessors, is looking to reunite the church under himself and the Catholic hierarchical pyramid. God builds with pillars, not pyramids.

But who knows, perhaps a prominent and humble Bible-believing Christian leader will take the Pope up on his offer to hash out some of the doctrinal stuff — let’s call his bluff. There is MUCH of it (and I mean “stuff” in the worst sense of the word) that has piled up in the Catholic church. In my view, the Catholic church and its near cousins the Eastern Orthodox and Anglican traditions, have followed the “sins of Jeroboam” that we read about in 1Kings, and that eventually got the ten tribes of Israel expelled. Just like Jeroboam, they have built their own man-made religion, man-made priesthood, and man-made doctrines that have no divine origin whatsoever. Like the Pharisees, they have shut the kingdom of heaven against men. They neither enter themselves, nor allow those who would enter to do so.

Sorry for being so critical, but God’s got a book called the Bible. We need to follow it. So Mr. Pope, sir, take your vestments and your rosary beads and your vain repetitions and your censers and your “holy water” and your celibate so-called priests and your prayers to saints and your deification of Mary and the rest of the unbiblical abominations and flush them right down the toilet where they belong. Pick up your Bible and start from scratch. Then maybe we’ll be able to enjoy the unity that Jesus intended for the church.