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To: massgopguy; xzins
I guess I'll have to post the straight skinny...

 

1 Corinthians 11:3
   Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
 
Ephesians 1:9-10
 9.  And he  made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ,
 10.  to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment--to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
 
Ephesians 1:22-23
 22.  And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,
 23.  which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
 

Ephesians 4:11-16
 11.  It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
 12.  to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up
 13.  until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
 14.  Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.
 15.  Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.
 16.  From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
 
Ephesians 5:23
   For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
 
Colossians 1:17-18
 17.  He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
 18.  And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.
 
Colossians 2:8-10
 8.  See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
 9.  For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
 10.  and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.
 
Colossians 2:18-19
 18.  Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize. Such a person goes into great detail about what he has seen, and his unspiritual mind puffs him up with idle notions.
 19.  He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

15 posted on 02/07/2005 9:38:57 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie
Sure, Christ is the head. That's the whole point of the Pope.

The Pope was given the keys (Isaiah 22:22) and is His Vicar. If you ignore the King's Vicar, you ignore the King. Sorry, but that's how monarchy works, and Christians are monarchical, not democratic. You approach the King in part through His ministers, for the reasons stated in the essay - to add to the glory of God.

The office of apostle did not lapse in Scripture. Instead, the office of apostle went through four generations:

Four generations of the office of apostle, and Scripture ends, but at no point does Scripture indicate the office and authority of the office ends. God established a heirarchy in His kingdom. That's how monarchies work.

22 posted on 02/07/2005 9:51:16 AM PST by skellmeyer
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