And isn't it case law that got us so far from the constitution?
Let’s keep the apples separated from the oranges.
And isn't it case law that got us so far from the constitution?
Exactly the problem. It's not as though there is no place for developing consensus among believers for how to proceed in a new area. What is absent from the New Testament model for such deliberation is the supposed need for a single monolithic human infrastructure that can bind believers into things that have no basis in Scripture. Unlike our earthly Constitution, the Author of our Divine Constitution is the living God, who not only puts the book in our hands but also dispenses His Holy Spirit as a tutor to all who put their trust in Jesus.
This is one of the main reasons the New Covenant was to be so much superior to the Old Covenant: They shall all be taught of God. No longer are we to be subservient to a mediatorial class. We are no longer mere servants in the house of God but sons and daughters who have the ear of our Father. We benefit from teachers in the body of Christ, yes, that is one of the blessed gifts the Spirit gives us. But if we are to take seriously that Christ truly is our only Master, our only Rabbi, then it is not only possible but it is our duty to learn from Him, and not turn our teachers into idols by which we avoid our own personal responsibility to grow in the kind of faith and righteousness that can only come from rubbing shoulders with Christ Himself:
Act 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
Peace,
SR