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Originally Posted by Stephen  If the Pope was a servant of Christ and a godly man, he would not allow people to treat him as God. He would want people to give glory to God and not himself. |
But it is the grand papal tradition:
"You know that I am the Holy Father, the representative of God on the earth, the Vicar of Christ, which means that I am God on the earth." -- Pope Pius XI
"There is no other Ceaser, nor king, nor emperor, than I, the Sovereign Pontiff and successor of the Apostles." -- Pope Boniface VIII
"He (the Pope] alone promulgates law. He alone is absolved from all law. He alone sits in the chair of St. Peter, not as mere man, but as man and God...His will is law; what he pleases has the force of law." -- Pope JohnXXII
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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
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John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.
"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
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Martin Luther, Table Talk