Well, #Anglican #doctrine will not give you a pope. The Archbishop of Canterbury is not a pope, and every national church is #autocephalous.
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Replying to @LueYee
I must research more. But isn't christs declaration of peter as the rock a clear designation if not for a pope, but some central authority?
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @LueYee
And maybe my American bias is showing, but Anglicanism's separation from this authority merely a symptom of its monarchy rebelling against R
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque
The central authority is already there: the word of God itself, from which no one may derogate and live.
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Replying to @LueYee @la_bug_epoque
Actually, it was the
#papacy, by its very existence as a false institution opposed to the#gospel, that was in rebellion against God.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @LueYee @la_bug_epoque
Apostolic authority, however, is in every bishop, and it was the revisionism of Rome that said otherwise.
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Replying to @LueYee @la_bug_epoque
In matters temporal, however, the most exalted and saintly bishop is subject to the imperium of the emperor or king.
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Replying to @LueYee
I cannot believe a merely earthly sovereign would be granted supremacy over such a wholly uncreated eternal thing.
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque
But that is what we see in holy Scripture, partly because kingship is /not/ merely earthly.
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Replying to @LueYee
Kingship is a local phenomenon of force. Might = right. It does not guarantee holiness as demonstrated by countless heathen kings
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Render unto ceaser that which is ceasers seems to totally undermine any intrinsic holiness of kings lest they earn it thru toil
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