McMinnville pastor accused in suit of Defamation

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Godsdrummer

You just said it. In two thousand years pagan practices have been added to Christianity. And I am not dancing around just four of them because in today's society the list is almost innumerable. And that goes to our church hierarchy. This was not as it was in the NT church but added by the pagan practices of RC. Whether you want to believe it or not.
It was the Roman Catholic church that decreed that only certain people had the authority to decipher scripture, not the church. Face it our church hierarchy was passed down to us from the Catholic church, albeit watered down today, but still not biblical.
When Christ said, "there shall not be a singular one over the rest of the body" he meant it. The whole purpose of the church meeting in Acts 15 was because they worked as a unit not singular. Or there would not have been a need for the meeting. Because if you believe the RC teaching, not only was Peter the pastor of the Jerusalem church but the first Pope, he would have simply made the determination himself.

Yet, one man leadership wasn't found in Acts 15:20, because it wasn't an issue until Diotrephes was φιλοπρωτεύω (one who is ambitious to be first) started to speak against the other "elders." Also throwing out any opposition to his ministerial leadership. Back in those days an apostle just came by and kicked some hind quarters, no one was sued, but the apostle took care of the situation.