What Church is This?

[chestertonrules]

Another Roman Catholic historian, Michael Winter:

Cyprian used the Petrine text of Matthew to defend episcopal authority, but many later theologians, influenced by the papal connexions of the text, have interpreted Cyprian in a propapal sense which was alien to his thought...Cyprian would have used Matthew 16 to defend the authority of any bishop, but since he happened to employ it for the sake of the Bishop of Rome, it created the impression that he understood it as referring to papal authority...Catholics as well as Protestants are now generally agreed that Cyprian did not attribute a superior authority to Peter (Michael Winter, St. Peter and the Popes (Baltimore: Helikon, 1960), pp. 47-48).

I've never heard of Michael Winter. He's entitled to his opinion, but he's not entitled to speak for all Catholics or protestants.

It is quite clear that any reference to the Chair of Peter is a reference to papal authority.

 

[Elijah674]

The Word of God/Christ tell's you of 'this' mother + her daughters in the ENDING, surely she is with us.. WOLDWIDE in the END! Rev. 17:5 tells us.. as the ABOMINATION OF THE EARTH the Word [DOCUMENTS].

And then there are the Seven Church's spoken of in Rev. 3 who were of the last Virgin Ones and not the above Trash/heep of Rev. 17:1-5. And of these last two, one replaced the last one who join's the synagoge of satan above. (ibid 9) while the sixth replaces the the seventh & is seen in verse 10 as 'being kept from the 666 hour that tests the world while being persecuted from Laodicea! Rev. 12:17 Identifies the 144000. No different than old D-E-S-O-L-A-T-E Israel (Matt. 23:38) into extended New Israel of Acts! (see Eccl. 3:15)
--Elijah