Who made you the authoritative interpreter of the book of Revelation?
MY FATHER!! You hearken to the voice of men.
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But you don't have that authority.
WHY don't I? Does not the Holy Spirit indwell His people or was the upper room in the book of Acts a sham and heresy also!
God said "He is no respecter of persons"....."In Christ Jesus there is NO Male or Female." "ALL MANS righteousness is as filthy rags."
HOW CAN THE SAME BLOOD of Christ that bought our salvation make one person any holier than another.......Is there a blood the hiarchy in your counterfeit church gets that is better than the blood that was shed for me?
As with Israel...you are not happy with your God given freedom or your ability to walk with your Heavenly Father as Adam walked with Him. The veil was torn.....there is no division between God and His people thru priests or pastors. You scream for a King....God has given you one, called a Pope, because you have found God insufficient, and He does not meet your expectations of who you believe the God of Abraham to be. Serve your NEW God and you will go into perdition with him. For he counterfeits the ONE TRUE GOD!!
Lucifer pulls to himself the worship he has wanted since he rebeled and was cast to the earth from the heavens and you love him and will give it to him ,as will the world.
Now we are getting to the core of the problem. You think that everyone has equal authority in the Church. But Christ gave authority to the Apostles, and especially to Peter, to whom He gave the keys (Matt 16:19). He did not give the keys to every believer, but only to Peter. By this authority, Peter and the Apostles ordained bishops in the various cities to which they travelled. And as Clement (the third bishop of Rome) tells us, they commanded that those whom they ordained should ordain others to replace those bishops and priests who died. And thus, there would be an organic succession of authority, from bishop to succeeding bishop, until Christ's return. No one in the Church denied this until the Reformation. For 1500 years, this was the received view in the Church. But in these last days, the true authority is being spurned, and everybody makes himself into an authority, as you yourself do. You reject the Lord's anointed, and usurp for yourself the seat of Peter. Lucifer himself, as you mentioned, did exactly that. He rejected his rightful place, and sought to usurp the authority over him, which was Christ. Those who reject Christ's Apostles reject Christ. One cannot accept Christ and reject His Apostles. You claim to submit to the Apostles, but you do not submit to those whom they appointed to govern the Church until Christ's return. You can't have it both ways. If you reject Christ's appointed authorities, you are rejecting the very Apostlehood which they embody. You are making yourself equal in authority to an Apostle, making your obedience to the writings of the Apostles in the New Testament mere lip service. If you are equal in authority to the Apostles, then why submit to the Apostles' writings? Just write your own Bible. If the Apostles can write books of the Bible, and you have equal authority with the Apostles, then write your own Bible, and stop pretending to submit to the authority of the Apostles.
-A8