I think the political forces as well as the human nature aspects caused much more hierarchical junk than God ever attended and that it was well entrenched by 300 years after Christ.
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GOD is my hierarchy. I respect and submit to folks over me as He directs me to do. But also to anyone else He directs me to do.
As a Catholic, I am a Bible literalist. There is enough hierarchy preached in the Bible itself for me to discard it, quite apart from the historical evidence of hierarchical eucharistic Church as tthe only church there ever was.