Beneath Christ, there are prelates, and Scripture says, , “obey your prelates”. You cannot read obey your prealates if you have none and reading that command to mean, “obey your selves” is absurd.
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You will have to show me in the New Testament where it says obey your “prelates”.
I do not recall ever even seeing the word, so I looked it up - ah, so no.
Chapter and verse?
Jesus said this....
John 14:15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 14:23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
John 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
1 John 5:1-5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. 4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
The only one we have to obey is Jesus.
It DOES?
Where?