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>Do you think Jesus chose Peter
Jesus did not choose Peter as pope (which is a fantasy of the middle ages)
>Who do you think compiled the Books of the Bible? Who has preserved the Bible for 1500 years?
God.
>Do you think the likes of Ignatius and Polycarp Who studied under John himself are not good guides?
I think they were great guides, I think furthermore 1. To the extent they were good or not good it is not because of who they knew but because of their commitments to God's word, 2. Very little of what they said exists today, so what they could guide *us* about is quite narrow, 3. There is no doubt that if they were alive today they would flock to our banner. Indeed, as these ancient men knew nothing at all of Romanism, but lived and died before a single one of its distinctives, you should believe they were very poor guides if you are a Romanist.
>I have seen a Lutheran here
OK, I doubt you're accurately representing him, but even if so it doesn't really mean anything.
>weren't Liberal Lutherans the ones who were the biggest modernists?
Yes. Also I am not Lutheran but Reformed if that's why you keep talking about Lutherans (not that I count liberals as Lutheran, liberalism and Christianity are religions in contest).
>I very explicitly said that he would never do so
Yes, and then you addressed a scenario where it happened. That the scenario was hypothetical is exactly my point. If this happened tomorrow you would reject Rome as condemned by God and that is in substance no different from our Reformation. You are functioning on sola scriptura by saying that, to reject sola scriptura would be to say that you would believe what the church says.
>this is impossible to happen
It happened in 1545.