the Church tests all things and keeps the good

Lutero said:

From the Vatican website :

"6. The New Testament contains no explicit record of a transmission of Peter’s leadership; nor is the transmission of apostolic authority in general very clear. Furthermore, the Petrine texts were subjected to differing interpretations as early as the time of the Church Fathers. "

7.<...> Yet it is possible to think that a primacy of the bishop of Rome is not contrary to the New Testament and is part of God’s purpose regarding the Church’s unity and catholicity, while admitting that the New Testament texts offer no sufficient basis for this.

The early church did not support Rome's claims of papal supremacy.

Clement of Rome

Accept our counsel and you will have nothing to regret. . . . If anyone disobeys the things which have been said by him [Jesus] through us, let them know that they will involve themselves in no small danger. We, however, shall be innocent of this sin and will pray with entreaty and supplication that the Creator of all may keep unharmed the number of his elect (Letter to the Corinthians 58:2, 59:1[A.D. 95]).

http://www.staycatholic.com/ecf_primacy_of_rome.ht

The early church 'fathers' had DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS of the whole Peter/rock thing.

Maybe, but the Church tests all things and keeps the good:

1 Thessalonians 5:21

King James Version (KJV)
²¹ Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

The Scriptures do not support Rome's claims of papal supremacy.

Papal supremacy is not based on historical fact or on Scriptural truth.

It is based on Tradition, Scripture, Magisterium, and history. It is just plain fact.

Papal supremacy was based on nothing more than Roman Church forgeries.

The Scriptures are not forged.

God's true church is not founded on the lust of position and power, the overlording of others, the attributes of the Roman Empire, and forgeries and falsifications.

True. Protestants do that.

Now, show me where Jesus wrote any Scripture? Because if Jesus wanted you to rely upon it, He would have written it. But He didn't. He wanted you to rely upon the Church and the Traditions which He established and passed down through the Church.

And I'll show you where Jesus commanded the passing down of Tradition:
Matt 28:19-20

Matthew 28:19-20

King James Version (KJV)
¹⁹ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
²⁰ Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.  

Sincerely,

De Maria


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