Not the originals?..
The job security of hand me down authority gives me the heebie jeeepies..
I know about the strange teachers(heretics) and such..
So I understand the logic of the hand me downs.. but I don;t like the concept of it..
The aternative is to give everybody apostolic authority—then we have Protestantism...talk about heebie jeeepies!
***So I understand the logic of the hand me downs.. but I don;t like the concept of it..***
It is what the Church of Jesus tells us.
We take the view that it doesn’t matter if we like it or not. We may not like the concept of worshipping God in the Eucharist once a week or more since it gets us out of our warm beds on Sundays, yet there it is.
We may take the view that fasting on Church-directed days is not likeable; we may take any view we wish. But if it does not come from the authority of Jesus, then it is not so. If it does, then it is so.