The Papacy
with its claim
that
the Pope is the vicar of
Christ
was not original
to
the early Jesus
movement
that was morphed into
church.
The belief that
Peter the Apostle
was the first
Pope
is wrong.
The Papacy
took form
in the fifth
century
under Leo I,
Bishop of Rome,
trained in Roman
Law,
who simply took
the titles and majestic
claims
developed by Emperor
Augustus
and applied them
to himself in Peter’s
name.
Peter had
nothing to do with it.
Leo
and others
simply transferred Roman
ideas
of imperial power
to the function of
Pope.
Popes still claim the
title
Supreme Pontiff.
The
monarchical papacy
that
resulted from the expropriation of
Roman
Imperial pomp
is
heretical
to
the Jesus story.
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