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If one proposes that one's church trumps the very words of YHWH, all that can be left is incredulity.... One cannot step back from that and find common ground, because if you truly believe that, then there is no common ground.

Do you not believe Jesus Christ is God incarnate?

Do you REALLY want to claim that any edifice of man has authority over that?

The Church is not "of man."

I should think you would know that....

[roamer_1:] If one proposes that one's church trumps the very words of YHWH, all that can be left is incredulity.... One cannot step back from that and find common ground, because if you truly believe that, then there is no common ground.

Do you not believe Jesus Christ is God incarnate?

Yes I do... But I find that proof in the Old Testament. Can you?

[roamer_1:] Do you REALLY want to claim that any edifice of man has authority over that?

The Church is not "of man." I should think you would know that....

The 'Assembly' reaches far back before the Roman church ever was. The proofs offered to identify the Roman church as 'THE Church' are very poor, and proofs against it abound. So even if there is authority over the Word to be found in such an edifice (which I deny entirely), I am more than skeptical of the claim. The Temple priesthood, particularly the Pharisees, thought precisely the same way - And that didn't turn out well at all.

The purpose of the priesthood (in this context) has always been to safeguard the Word, not to add or diminish it. That is not power or authority OVER it, but rather, that authority is found in submission to it.