11/11/2022 0 Comments If you were church i get on my knees![]() ![]() Normally I would hesitate to disagree with a great man and spiritual leader like Cyprian. The term "priest" came to be used as the western churches began to use Latin in their writings during the 3rd century. It's awful hard to argue with Ignatius' letters and other evidence. The Scriptures from Peter and Paul are there for you to see, and the history of John's churches is simply what's accepted. That evidence is so clear and obvious that no one would doubt it if the Roman Catholic Church were not around to fight for their doctrine of the primacy of the bishop of Rome.įor now, what I have just written is not controversial. ![]() When I address whether there was a pope in the early Church, I will give you clear, strong evidence that Rome didn't have a singular bishop until at least A.D. Only one church leader was the overseer.īy the mid-2nd century or so, it seems clear that every well-organized church functioned this way, and almost all Christian writers of the 2nd century and later seem to have forgotten that there was ever a time when churches had multiple overseers. Antioch, Ignatius' home church, and the churches to whom Ignatius wrote (except Rome, which both Paul and Peter helped establish) each had one overseer and multiple elders. It is clear from Ignatius' letters that John's church leaders did not have the same roles as Paul and Peter's church leaders. Tradition-tradition that most historians consider reliable-has it that the apostle John appointed Ignatius as overseer. Of course, the apostle Paul had been dead for about 50 years when Ignatius wrote his letters. ![]() His name is Ignatius, and he was bishop in Antioch, the apostle Paul's home church. We have letters dated not long after the apostle John died from a man that John appointed as an overseer. The New Testament says overseers and elders are the same men, and they are the shepherds of the Church. If you hear teaching about this subject, that's about the extent of what you'll hear. I exhort the elders who are among you … to shepherd the flock of God which is among you, overseeing them. ( The word "overseers," used in most Bibles is the same word we translate "bishop.") presbuteroi) interchangeably. They also tell these elder-overseers that they are the ones who will shepherd (or pastor) the church of God. Paul and Peter-the only two New Testament authors who use the terms- use bishops (or overseers, Gr. They do this by taking quotes out of context or referencing materials that no one except archeologists can reference. There are dozens of references saying otherwise. However, there is not even one Ante-Nicene Christian writer who suggests keeping the Sabbath or says that the early churches kept the Sabbath in the sense of resting on the 7th day of the week. Everything I teach on this web site is easily verifiable with an internet search. For every quote I give, you can find the writing it came from and read it in context.Īs an example, there are whole books written teaching that the Ante-Nicene churches (those prior to the Council of Nicea in A.D. On every controversial issue, there are plenty of misquotes. ![]()
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