ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
= = =
I assume you read that Scripture yourself.
It confirms what I've been saying about THE CONGREGATION in I Cor 12-14 having the authority--particularly wisely exercised toward humble wise old codgers deciding tricky things.
No hint of a multi-layered bureaucratic edifice of the sort Christ railed so much against.
Thanks for such a good Old Testament confirmation of the emphasis on THE CONGREGATION having the authority a la I Cor 12-14
Did you read that passage in Numbers? You saw one word and ran off with it. The whole sense of it is that *duly constituted* religious authority *cannot be circumvented*.
You don't think the Israelites had authority to depose Moses, do you?