Who is the Head of the Church? Is it Jesus the Christ or is it our leaders that have been appointed by whatever ritual or procedure? Constantine while seemingly professing Christianity as the true Religion, placed himself in charge of the Christian movement (the replacing Jesus as the Head so to speak) and proceeded to carry out his own agenda, many regarded him as God led and many still do. The problem with this concept is only Jesus the Christ is declared as the Head of the true Church. The Holy Spirit is declared as the link between those who believe and the Ascended Saviour and based on the evidence in the Bible those declaring the Words of the Saviour through the intervention of the Holy Spirit of God are established with the Power of the Living God. It would be quite easy to avoid those claiming other things than those established in the Bible if we were humble and read the Bible expecting the Author to teach us through the link of His Holy Spirit, instead of Intellectual prowess only ascribed to a few.

The office of the Pope in itself is not established in God's word, if it is then I wish someone would direct me to this new passage. There is a spirit that has worked overtime to create errors in or reasoning and assist us to follow a path that leads us away from the Living God and this Spirit is declared as the Spirit of the Anti-Christ in the Bible. Many Churches whether they fall within the Reformist group or whether they stick to the original Roman Catholic precepts simply choose to follow the teachings of men which are mostly errors as opposed to following the direct teachings of God through Bible Study and Prayer and hearing the Word as spoken by one inpired by God whose words will be confirmed in the scriptures and establish in the the Power of God.

It seems to me that the way of the Lord Jesus requires due diligence and humbleness and we get no credit or boost from self inflating displays of intellect and fleshly performances only God is Glorified. All of us need to be diligent in our study of the Word and our discussions should seek to uplift and improve each other instead of destroying or sealing the condemnation of the other. Remember "All have sinned and fall short of the glory" so we need to let our lights shine so that it may shine a light into the darkness of many who are on a path to destruction. If we continue along the path of promoted Intellectual prowess which involves a fewer number of persons over the Plan of God which includes His Love for the people in the World then since God cannot fail we may find ourselves on the outside of His Plan so we will have failed. Let Good overcome us and go before us so that the bad around us will be exposed in a way more powerful than our words. Just my two cents.

Last edited by Delivered; Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:04 AM.