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To: ravenwolf
The verses below show that Jesus did not intend for the Apostles to start a hierarchy.

Not sure how you get that out of those passages. "Whoever would be chief among you" sounds like it assumes the possibility of a "chief among you" which doesn't sound like complete egalitarianism to me. The whole passage is a warning against the misuse of authority, not a rejection of authority itself.

Besides, are you saying that the Apostles fumbled the ball when they, as St Paul writes, "appointed elders in every town" (cf Titus 1:5)?

31 posted on 01/22/2013 6:12:28 PM PST by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: Campion

Not sure how you get that out of those passages. “Whoever would be chief among you” sounds like it assumes the possibility of a “chief among you” which doesn’t sound like complete egalitarianism to me. The whole passage is a warning against the misuse of authority, not a rejection of authority itself.


Maybe you and i have a different view of what a hierarchy is.

In my view Hitler and Stalin were the leaders of a hierarchy.


35 posted on 01/23/2013 5:24:40 AM PST by ravenwolf
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