Leadership

[Truthseeker4]

I didn’t want to detract from the Keys to the Kingdom thread.

This passage, Mat 16: 15-23 (KJV and CJB) has been at the forefront of my mind.

Looking back into the OT there has always been a leader and a spokesperson for God. That person has for the most part heard audibly from God.

Did Jesus place Peter in the seat of Moses? I would think that not only did he place Peter in that place but also the other Apostles. Only because of Mat 23.

Jesus did say that the teacher’s of Torah and the Pharisee’s sit in the seat of Moses. That we should obey their teachings and not what they do.

Is the Pope the main spokesperson and sits in the seat of Moses? Are there other’s that sit in the seat of Moses with him? Please provide references biblically and from the early Church fathers on how the leadership was to be structured.

Melissa

 

[jimmy]

Peter is connected to the High Priest. It could be said that Jesus gave Peter the seat of Moses. If you read Isaiah 22;15-25, you can see this by the great similarity in the passage. All the apostles when gathered in council share the keys, while Peter is the principle holder of the keys. So the pope as the successor of Peter, is the principle spokesperson as you said, but the rest of the bishops in communion with him have the same authority when in councils. Vatican council II said this.

“6. The Constitution then turns to the structure of the hierarchy which Christ established in his Church. It uses the word “college” in the sense of a unified, corporate body of men (just as cardinals are said to belong to a “sacred college”). Christ formed his Apostles “after the manner of a college,” and over this college he placed Peter, whom he had chosen from their midst. The mission which Christ entrusted to the Apostles must last until the end of the world; accordingly the Apostles chose others to succeed them. It is therefore by divine institution that bishops have succeeded the Apostles. The college or body of bishops, however, has authority together with the Pope as its head. The Pope is the foundation of unity, of bishops as well as of the Faithful; so that supreme authority can be exercised by the college of bishops only in union with the Pope and with his consent.”