Honestly, I would have surprised with any other answer.
For me, any doctrine that detracts from the Lord Jesus and puffs up any human in His place (such as in being Head of the church) is wrong - as nowhere in Scripture do we see such teaching explicitly; only pulled out in bits and pieces to become the traditions of this church or that.
Hold to what you will. The Bible tells us that only God is to be fully trusted - no group of men or individual can stand in His place.
“Honestly, I would have surprised with any other answer.
For me, any doctrine that detracts from the Lord Jesus and puffs up any human in His place (such as in being Head of the church) is wrong - as nowhere in Scripture do we see such teaching explicitly; only pulled out in bits and pieces to become the traditions of this church or that.
Hold to what you will. The Bible tells us that only God is to be fully trusted - no group of men or individual can stand in His place.”
I was hoping you’d address my comments directly as it goes to the question you yourself posed in this thread, that you yourself began.
I do agree no man should be “puffed” up. I know you would not call Moses “puffed” up, nor Aaron, or Abraham, or Isaac, Daniel, John the Baptist, or any prophet; because God singled these men out throughout human history for a mission, leadership, Kingship, Chief Priest or whatever.
If Peter claimed this authority falsely, he would in fact be “puffed” up. But, we know the Lord himself addresses Peter in a singular fashion: ‘whatever you (singular) hold bound on earth, is bound in heaven; whatever you (singular) hold loosed on earth is loosed in heaven.’ Similarly, the Lord addressed Peter in singular “you” about confirming the brethren, after he prayed that Simon’s faith would not fail.
I agree with you, only the Lord can be fully trusted. Yet there is no contradiction in knowing, as we do, that when an all powerful God could have done it all Himself in human history without any human agencies involved, God - incredibly - chose to involve men in executing His will in time; and that God expect men to accept them as his servants.
To me then, it does not contradict scripture, faith or reason to see that the Lord institued his Church with an earthly organization that included Peter, as chief of the apostles (and his successors) and the apostles (and their successors, the bishops) for the purpose of insuring the orderly transmission, propagation, handing down and interpretation of the faith in history.