You need to make sure of what you are teaching, as James the head of the church issues guidelines after the gathering in Jerusalem for converts and one of those guidelines is to not imbibe in blood. That is in the NT.
James head of the Church? Nah.
Catholic.com Tract here provides a good perspective. Peter was the Rock, established by Christ himself over The Church. James was (likely) head of the Church in Jerusalem. Peter shows his authority in Acts 15 and only after Peter settles the issue does James speak.
15 But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2 And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. 3 So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoeni′cia and Samar′ia, reporting the conversion of the Gentiles, and they gave great joy to all the brethren. 4 When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. 5 But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up, and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses.”
6 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter. 7 And after there had been much debate,
Peter rose and said to them, “Brethren, you know that in the early days God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8 And God who knows the heart bore witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us; 9 and he made no distinction between us and them, but cleansed their hearts by faith. 10 Now therefore why do you make trial of God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? 11 But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”
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12 And all the assembly kept silence; **and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. 13 After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brethren, listen to me. 14 Symeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
In addition to scripture itself, we can read the early church writings and no where - no where do we see anyone saying James was the head of the Church. What we do read is that Peter’s successors claim authority over The Church.
“Stephen, that he who so boasts of the place of his episcopate, and contends that
he holds the succession from Peter, on whom the foundations of the Church were laid.…Stephen, who announces that he holds by succession the throne of Peter.” Pope Stephen I [regn. A.D. 254-257], Firmilian to Cyprian, Epistle 74/75:17 (A.D. 256).
And the faith comes down from a succession of Catholic Bishops. Even in the earliest times, there were those meeting having opinions contrary to that of the apostolic faith.
“Since, however, it would be very tedious, in such a volume as this, to reckon up the successions of all the Churches,
we do put to confusion all those who, in whatever manner, whether by an evil self-pleasing, by vainglory, or by blindness and perverse opinion, assemble in unauthorized meetings; [we do this, I say,] by indicating that tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very ancient, and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul;
as also [by pointing out] the faith preached to men, which comes down to our time by means of the successions of the bishops. For it is a matter of necessity that every Church should agree with this Church, on account of its pre- eminent authority, that is, the faithful everywhere, inasmuch as the apostolical tradition has been preserved continuously by those [faithful men] who exist everywhere.” Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3:3:2 (A.D. 180).
Similarly, to believe that James was the leader of The Universal Catholic Church is to hold a belief contrary to that of the apostles and contrary to the Words of Christ whereby he established The Church on St. Peter.
(interestingly, can you imagine if Catholic’s said The Church was founded on James and Protestants said it was founded on St. Peter? How Catholic’s would be criticized for their exegesis of scripture
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It seems you are taking offense to something that has never meant to be offensive.