God’s Truth is all that SHOULD matter.
Your examples of brothers is not applicable in this dispensation. There is only one HEAD of the Body - Jesus. God has no grandkids, nephews, or stepchildren, only children who are joint-heirs with Christ. There is no religious monarchy in the Body of Christ, no matter how much men have attempted to create one.
You are in a heap of trouble when you elect/appoint a man in place of Jesus. Satan has a field day with religious leaders and organizations, leading them astray and taking their followers down with them. There is also the cult of personality that develops around religious leaders, that takes the focus off of Jesus where it exclusively belongs.
Yes there are teachers and apostles and evangelists called, anointed, and placed BY GOD in the Body, not by men. But they are servants, simply brothers and sisters in Christ. No matter how much education, degrees, accolades, and titles they might have, they are still humans and likely to make mistakes. Jesus will never let you down. He is Truth.
God has no grandkids, nephews, or stepchildren, only children who are joint-heirs with Christ.I only spoke of brothers -- among who there is often an elder or eldest.
You are in a heap of trouble when you elect/appoint a man in place of Jesus.
Well then it's a good thing neither I nor the church has done so.
Satan has a field day with religious leaders and organizations, leading them astray and taking their followers down with them.So, among dispensationalists we have the Jehovah's Witnesses. But to whom or to what do you appeal to say they are right or wrong?
There may be the RISK opf the cult of personality. But if you look at what Catholcis are saying about PapaFran, that's not really an issue. It's the NON-Catholicss who love the guy based not on what he has said but on the cult of personality the secular media has whipped up.
No matter how much education, degrees, accolades, and titles they might have, they are still humans and likely to make mistakes. Jesus will never let you down. He is Truth.
He is THE truth (John 14:6). (And one title of the Pope is the servant of the servants of God.)
We can argue the details of Acts 15. But one thing is clear: when the council had reached their conclusionj they said, more or less, "It seems good to the Holy Spirit and to us," that gentile converts did not have to become Jews. Now, how do you know they did not err, if councils can err? And if you and your friends called a council which said that they HAD erred, how would you know which council to believe?
So, of course,
God’s Truth is all that SHOULD matter.
The problem is that the disagreement among those who claim to reject "tradition" and to rely on Scripture alone suggests that knowing exactly WHAT God's truth is is the problem.
Some turn to Darby and Scofield. Others support Olive Tree thinking and favor Messianic Jews. Still others followed Russell and Rutherford, etc and became Jehovah's Witnesses.
So which of these is wrong and how can we tell?