> Jesus, in the scriptures you sent to me was setting forth the church in a way by
> telling the apostles that they are to follow him not the jewish religion. in
> the second set of scripture he was refering to himself, not you RAY.
Dear Stephen:
You will have to get up a little earlier in the morning than that, Stephen, if you think you can make me contradict myself:
Stephen! Jesus was talking about the "AUTHORITY" that the GENTILES exercised, not the "Jewish religion." Now then, as you do not wish that anyone be directly under the authority of "God" but some organization of men, where is your Scripture for what authority the Apostles were directly UNDER, if not Jesus Christ Himself? Where was their intermediator authority? You speek as a fool.
We are to follow the foot steps of JESUS CHRIST, not the authority of man: "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow HIS STEPS [not some unauthorized instituionalized organization of men]" (I Peter. 2:21).
Furthermore: "...as He IS, SO [also, likewise, in the same manner] ARE WE in this world" (I Peter 4:17). No human self-appointed holier-than-thou MAN has one iota of spiritual authority over me!! And that is why I can teach the Truths of God, unfettered.
Sincerely,
Ray