[bornacatholic]

Being advised by Timothy that Scripture Alone can thoroughly furnish a Believer unto Perfect Understanding,

*Don't forgetthe teaching of our first Pope

16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

*Sleep well, brother

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

*Don't forgetthe teaching of our first Pope

There was no "First Pope". The entire Concept of Roman Papal Supremacy is foreign and antithetical to the Church of Jesus Christ.

There was a First Council, which was presided over by the Brother of Jesus, Patriarch of Jerusalem Apostle James (NOT PETER).

ACTS 15:4, 13, 19-20, 22
And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.... And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:.... Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.... Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company...

At the end of the day, the Government of the Church is Conciliar.

Now, the Orthodox may interpret James as being an "Ecumenical Patriarch" amongst Equal Bishops, whereas we Presbyterians would interpret James as a "General Moderator" amongst Equal Presbyters... but despite our disagreements, we will agree on this:

The First President of Council was James, not Peter; and the Proper Organization of Church Government IS CONCILIAR, NOT PAPAL.