Likewise, the "Proddy" folk deny that Christ placed the Apostles in authority over His Church, and deny that they need to accept those who the Apostles placed in authority over His Church when they exercised the authority Christ delegated to the Apostles. The Apostles appointed those who are to oversee the Church yet modern followers of Korah insist that they have no one in authority over them because these modern pretenders to Truth prefer the heresy of, "the priesthood of all believers", to what Scripture clearly teaches.
It's clear, simple, and straight forward, no study of Numbers in any way contradicts the point Jude makes. Jude warns Christians about heresies those who follow Christ should be aware of and avoid, and the only way around the simple facts stated in Scripture is to create some diversionary and dishonest interpretation of the related portion of the Book of Numbers.
You see, everything Protestant and Protestant derived is clearly against Scripture and very fragile. That's why Protestantism didn't just gradually divide into several major schools of thought, but shattered into hundreds of individual false churches and religions during the single year Luther was being well taken care of by the nobility that stood to financially benefit from his heresy. There is no Scriptural basis for "the priesthood of all believers", as it is espoused and acted on by non-Catholic Christians. There are no Christians who are not under the authority of those the Apostles placed in authority over His Church, period. The entire framework of lies built on the falsehood of Korah, is a total fabrication, and a heresy God Almighty Himself punished when Korah first spouted that lie from the Father of Lies in an attempt to usurp the authority God had delegated to Moses.
As I said, go ahead and twist the clear meaning of Jude and Numbers. Anyone who so ignores the clear meaning of this Scripture, though, would be an obvious and deliberate liar when they told other folks they believed in the clear meaning of Scripture. In fact, folks who so ignore and twist Scripture compound one lie with another if they pretend that it's Scripture Alone that dictates what they believe. Jude and the related portion of Numbers is all, clear, Scripture. Nothing needs to be reinterpreted, nothing has complex wording, it's a clear, New Testament, New Covenant, reference to a dangerous heresy that has existed ever since the time of Moses. If anyone wants to deny that, fine, in doing do they they're saying Holy Spirit allowed Jude to be included in the Bible when Jude was in error, and furthermore, they're saying the Holy Spirit could not protect His Word from error. They are, in fact, defaming the Holy Spirit as both inept and incapable. Any weasel worded whine about the Apostles not being in authority over the Church Christ founded are clearly just that, weasel worded whines that boil down to calling the Holy Spirit inept by claiming that the Holy Spirit cannot and did not protect His Word from errors.
If you want to call the Holy Spirit inept and incapable of protecting His Word from error and side with Korah, Go for it. In doing so you'll be sticking with only real belief underlying Protestant and Protestant derived teachings that have all grown out of the revolt against The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. That single belief that underlies all else is, "to thine own self be true", as humanist and relativist a teaching as has ever existed, and the very same teaching that has spread from the most Protestant population in history to the most Protestant society in history, and guided the entire society and nation to the obvious consequences we live with today. "To thine own self be true" is the singular thing that all the non-Catholic churches have in common because it is the single reason for the revolt against those Christ had delegated His authority to and placed over us in His Church, The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church founded by Christ Himself.
I feel sure anyone who actually cares can find both Jude and ths associated portions of Numbers, and I also feel sure those who pretend to base their faith on Scripture while in reality rewriting Scripture to suit thier own personal interpretation of Scripture will not do so. They may go through the motions of quoting Scripotue, but people who claim blood is not book, flesh is not flesh, and rock is not rock, will not read what is there. Instead, they will almost automatically rather spin themself a web of diversion, reinterpretation, and redefinition, so they can continue to enjoy worshiping their own carnal mind. Have a nice day
See post 3403.