God deigned, though all men are mired in the shadows, to elect a man to represent Him in between His first and second coming.
God had no need to do this. God could have left man with just a memory of Him, pens and pencils, the Holy Spirit floating around, and twelve original members of the same Body. Yet instead He entrusted to men, to one man, the position to be called the temporal head of the Church. This same man, at the moments in which Jesus was entering into His brutal torture, passion, and death, in fear rejected Jesus three times publicly and vehemently just after promising everything to him. Yet despite this, his annunciation upon Peter, one of His first-borns, remained the same. What is this but God's grace on man's frailty and tendency to unbelief and doubt?
To reject the Pope is to reject God's grace on man, particularly His command that we obey those who temporally on Earth represent His eternal authority.
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