{"id":5285,"date":"2021-11-24T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2021-11-24T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T20:27:13","slug":"how-romanist-brethren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5285","title":{"rendered":"How, Romanist Brethren?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>24 Nov., 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How, Romanist Brethren, Can You Abide Biden?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I were an inquisitor, considering the proposition of Roman Catholicism concerning the supremacy of the bishop of Rome, I would be immediately thwarted in 2021 by the ongoing very public membership of POTUS Biden in the Roman Catholic Church.&nbsp; How is it that a Church which makes claims to holiness (which affirms, not perfection but, the practice of discipline ever in pursuit of holiness) can continue to maintain the membership of a scoundrel, yea, an apostate as is Joe Biden?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the Church, in the face of such a failure, continues without correction, the members are confronted with the question:&nbsp; Do I remain in an fellowship with such an unholy church &#8211; essentially a non-Church?&nbsp; Am I not obliged to seek and find and join a real church, one which practices discipline?&nbsp; One which is, thereby holy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 Nov., 2021 How, Romanist Brethren, Can You Abide Biden? If I were an inquisitor, considering the proposition of Roman Catholicism concerning the supremacy of the bishop of Rome, I would be immediately thwarted in 2021 by the ongoing very public membership of POTUS Biden in the Roman Catholic Church.&nbsp; How is it that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5286,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions\/5286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}