It certainly does not...The scripture clearly points out that the Holy Spirit is Jesus' representative on earth...
Christ did not ask the other Eleven to feed and tend His sheep.
Act 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
1Pe 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
Of course Peter AND the other eleven were responsible for feeding the sheep...All the elders were responsible for feeding the sheep as well...
If you read The Acts Of The Apostles, it is clear that St. Peter leads the Apostles.
Sure, clear as mud...
Paul didn't answer to Peter...The other apostles who became spread around the continent never answered to Peter...The second generation elders didn't answer to Peter...So who answered to Peter???
Peter wandered the country preaching to and converting Jews...Paul's ministry was to convert the Gentiles...
Therefore, since the Apostles are to be replaced as they die (Acts 1:20-26)
And you are wrong on this one as well...God did not sanction the chosing of another Apostle after Judas...That was the Apostle's idea...When Jesus wanted an Apostle, they were hand picked by Jesus...
And one requirement of being an Apostle was that the Apostle had to have witnessed the mininstry of Jesus and been been alive during the Crucifixion...
James was not replaced when he died...Why do you guys make this stuff up???
, then it follows that whoever succeed(s) St. Peter is leader of the Church.
Only by someone's twisted human logic...There is no leader of the church outside of the Lord, Jesus Christ...
There is only to be one shepherd of the Church (John 10:16).
True...But it ain't some guy dressed up in a monkey suit sittin' on a throne in Rome...
Psa 23:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd;
For the Apostles did not argue amongst themselves whether there was a "greatest" at all, but who amongst them was the greatest (Mark 9:34; Luke 9:46).
And Jesus immediately shot them down...
Mar 9:35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
The greatest is the one who is the last, and the servant of all...He is not a leader, not a pope...The greatest wil be at the bottom of the heap...
This entire little thesis is wrong from start to finish...This stuff is just plain untrue...Deception at it's best...
Only by someone's twisted human logic...There is no leader of the church outside of the Lord, Jesus Christ...
Twisted human logic? That persisted for some 1400 years after Christ's death and Resurrection, until the days of Henry VIII, who wanted yet another divorce and a church who would oblige him, and Martin Luther, who sought his own version of reform, and others who followed? Fourteen hundred years of error?
But it ain't some guy dressed up in a monkey suit sittin' on a throne in Rome...
Do you harbor the same 'Christian love' towards the leaders of other churches? Or do you single out the Pope alone?
INDEED.
Amen