Catholic church – There is a human in the church leadership?

The fact that Jesus entrusted to Peter the keys of the kingdom of heaven gave him a specific task (example: At. 15:7b), but he not made him chief of the other apostles. This thing can not inherit, others can not inherit this task, It gave exclusively to Peter at that time. The same applies to the promise that he would loose or tied would be loosed in heaven that was given as a result of every Christian.

Let us now consider some of the events that took place after these two promises which prove that:

Jesus did not represent a human head in the church. Matteo, Mark and Luke tell us that among the apostles there was a tendency to want to be larger than the other, but every time that Jesus took up again his disciples and teach them that they should not cultivate such thoughts, but rather follow his example came not to be served, but to serve.

Marco (9:33-35) and Luca (9:46-48) tell that following the promises that Jesus made Peter the apostles discussed which of them was the greatest (It made incomprehensible if Jesus had given to Peter the primacy). Jesus replied that he had established Peter as their head but takes them and says that whoever wants to be first will be last, and the servant of all.

The same principle is reaffirmed by Jesus when the mother of James and John asked later that her children could have the place to the right and the left of Jesus in his Kingdom. He said: “whoever wants to become great among you, be your servant; and whoever among you wants to be first, be your servant (doulos-schiavo)” (Mt. 20:20-27).

And once again Jesus reconfirms this principle when he takes up the vainglory of the Pharisees and scribes and forbids his disciples to want to be great and to be called fathers (Mt. 23:5-12 – practices later adopted by the Church against the express prohibition of Jesus) 1.

Note 1 In the West the name Pope (= father) used by all the Church was reserved to the bishops of Rome under Anastasius I (399-402).

The bishop was not only called Papa, but also most holy Father and His Holiness, terms in the Bible that apply only to God. Jesus called his Father “Holy Father” (Teacher. 17:11).

Peter has never claimed to be the head of the other apostles It does not appear in the New Testament that Peter has never claimed, or that it had a function of primacy among the apostles.. Peter declared to be “a senior with others” and that the Supreme Pastor is Jesus (1. Pi. 5:1-4). If Peter had been the head of the whole church he made a misrepresentation calling a simple elderly.

All the epistles of the apostles ignore the existence of a leader among them The apostle Paul speaks of the various ministries in the Church established by Jesus, but he never speaks of a human head on it (1. Co. 12:28; If. 4:11). If a Roman theologian, talking about the church hierarchy, forgot to mention the Pope, would as if an astronomer, talking about the solar system, forgot to mention the sun.

After the Ascension, the apostles appointed another apostle to replace Judas. Rather than get back all'infallibile Peter judgment, as they should have done, if he had been the Vicar of Christ, cast lots. Peter was not even to suggest the two proposed names (At. 1:23-26).

When the apostles heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John there (At. 8:14). If Peter had been their leader would go on its own initiative or would send someone, but it would not have been sent (Teacher. 13:16).

Paul says that Peter was reputed as one of the pillars of the Jerusalem church (Ga. 2:9).

The first Council of the Church in Jerusalem was not chaired by Peter and the decisions of the Council were to announce in the name churches of the apostles and older brothers (At. 15:23-29).

Jesus Christ is the only head of the Church The Church of Rome does not deny that Jesus Christ is the head of the Church, but states that, since He ascended into heaven, Peter wanted to leave the Church as a visible head that makes his stead on earth. It also claims that this power would be transmitted after the death of Peter to the bishops of Rome, his legitimate successors.

If the Church was a human society would be understandable that there should be a representative in the absence of the head. But the Church is a divine work and his boss is MAN and God at the same time. Declare himself Vicar of Christ means putting yourself in the other Paraclete promised by Christ and ignore the promises and claims of Jesus made to his disciples. He said it was useful to them that he was gone, that would not have left them orphans on earth, but at all times it would be there until the end of time (Teacher. 16:7; 14:16, 18, 23; Mt. 28:28; 18:20). The priesthood of Christ does not pass to another to the fact that lives forever and is able to intervene in any place and at any time (Eb. 7:24; You. 1:10-12, 19-20).

The Apostle Paul explains in what way Jesus builds his Church (Mt. 16:18; If. 4:10-16). It is from heaven that He, and not Peter, establishes (woman) prophets, evangelists, pastor-teachers in (a) church.

The apostle Paul says that Jesus Christ is the head of the Church as the husband is head of his wife (If. 5:22-23). As it is impossible to conceive that the husband should establish a substitute or secondary head between him and his wife so it is inconceivable that a man takes the place of Christ in the Church.

Paul also states that God has put all things under the feet of Jesus Christ and gave “to be head over to the church, which it is the body of Him” (If. 1:22-23). The faithful are the different members of the body of which Jesus is the head. The symbol of the body formally exclude the existence of two leaders; unless you want to talk about a monster. So we have to give to Christ or to the Pope.

If it is said not to exclude Christ, declaring the head of the Church Pope, because Christ is the invisible head, the supreme leader, while the Pope is the visible head, subordinate, please those who argue that the theory you give us only one passage in the Bible in which it is said that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ and head of the Church, Also subordinate or secondary, or as they like to call it better.

In the Epistle to the Colossians (1:18-19) Paul proclaims Jesus Christ “head of the body, the church:”, to oppose the false teachers that troubled. They did not deny Christ openly, but denied it as sole head of the Church, and not with words, but with deeds, giving precepts and ordinances, under the pretext of piety. Doing this they are not adhered to the head (2:18-19).

These teachings emphasize how important it is that every individual believer realizes in his personal life the constant invisible presence of Christ in the person of the Holy Spirit. The dilemma in the Church comes when you ignore the presence and lordship of the Spirit, walking according to the flesh (Ga. 5:16; Cl. 2:6 itself.).

What is your ongoing relationship with Christ?

We want to follow the Christianity of the Bible. The biblical Church is a body made up of all the true faithful, united among themselves by the same Spirit and the joints established by their only head which is Jesus Christ (If. 4:16).

Personal conclusions

here… although I believe that there are many good popes and others less so, because goodness does not derive from the religious denomination, and despite the fact that I was very saddened by the death of John Paul II, (I've been in front of the TV for three days) because it was a pope who has made history and was a good man, the word of the Bible is another, and I continue to say that over the centuries has been altered to power and personal interests, so much so that the Catholic Church today is a powerful government, something that Jesus would not have wanted.