>>203396
Primacy means supremacy. To be supreme is to be the highest authority, to have Primacy is to be first in authority. People who argue based on semantics and not based on either the gospels or the Church Fathers are missing a critical element. The Nicene Creed is a very basic outline of the faith. Very basic. It is not the faith nor the totality of the faith. It is a summary.
The Church Father's are unequivocal:
Irenaeus says thus: "But since it would be too long to enumerate in such a volume as this the succession of all the churches, we shall confound all those who, in whatever manner, whether through self-satisfaction or vainglory, or through blindness and wicked opinion, assemble other than where it is proper, by pointing out here the successions of the bishops of the greatest and most ancient church known to all, founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles. Peter and Paul, that church which has the tradition and the faith which comes down to us after having been announced to men by the apostles. With that church, because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree, that is, all the faithful in the whole world, and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition" (Against Heresies 3:3:2 [inter A.D. 189]).
Christ says, and it bears repeating, that Simon Bar-Jonah is "Cephas (rock, Peter), and on this Cephas (rock, Peter) I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. 19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
The evidence is Biblical, expounded in the works of the Apostles themselves and the Church Fathers. Vatican I is as irrelevant to the argument as the Nicene Creed. Both succeed the Bible.
>>203397
The fact that you need someone who most of the time takes no notice of your toil to secure you more toil is particularly annoying