- 10 - 8. 2 There is no infallible Papacy as a Source of the Truth The Catholic Church seeks to explain this breaking up into so many Christian ‘sects’, as it calls them, by saying that all other Christian denominations have fallen away from it, the only true church and the only one that leads to salvation. But I shall show you that even the Catholic Church retains scarcely anything of the Christianity of Christ and his Apostles. It has, true enough, succeeded in creating a human substitute for the Divine spirits so much in evidence in the early days of the Christian era. It introduced the doctrine of ‘papal infallibility’. This solved the problem of the truth in the simplest way, sparing Christ the labour of sending the spirits of truth to erring humanity as he had promised. He no longer needed to fulfill his promise to remain with the faithful, even unto the end of the world, for now there was a ‘Vicar of Christ’ on earth. Where there is a vicar, the individual who is represented need no longer appear. • Under this doctrine of an ‘infallible Vicar of Christ on earth’, the source from which the Divine truths could be derived was placed wholly into the hands of erring, sinful mortals, to the exclusion of God’s messengers, thus opening the door to human caprice and lust for power. You may proclaim that the papal elections are held under the guidance of the ‘Holy Spirit’, but you cannot cite a single instance in which a pope was chosen by a spirit of God. Or has it ever happened at a papal election that a spirit of God, using one of the electors as God’s instrument, announced who was to become pope, as had God’s spirits through the mediums in the early Christian churches whenever an elder or a bishop was to be ordained. Just look at the history of the papal elections. • Were they not at times conducted in a manner positively diabolical? • Were not intrigues of all kinds and even armed force resorted to, in order to place the tiara upon the heads of adherents and favourites of certain families? • Were not a succession of popes instruments of hell in their actions and their daily lives rather than ‘Vicars of Christ’? In order to evade this issue, you have resorted to the strange expedient of distinguishing between the pope as a man and the pope as the ‘vicar of Christ’, claiming that even the most evil of men, as soon as he becomes pope, represents Christ and acquires infallibility. Satan's tool and at the same time the deputy of Christ? Could there be any greater blasphemy of Christ and of God? Would any human being allow his greatest enemy to act as his deputy even for an hour? Assuredly not. And you think God and Christ would do that?
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