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The Role Of Hierarchy In The Early Church

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As the early church expanded some teaching weren’t clear that they were the word of God. One of the teaching is apostolic succession. Hierarchy is a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. Through hierarchy many beliefs were passed down the ministry by popes and bishops. Many of these belief include the canon, eucatist,hierarchies and etc. In order to find out what the was really said back then we must go back to the early church fathers and read their manuscripts. In Matthew 16:19 Jesus says “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” With this Jesus passes on his teaching …show more content…

From the book of Isaiah 22:22 “Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, When he opens no one will shut, When he shuts no one will open.”. The house of David represents the church in which Jesus gives the key to Peter and with them never his doors close for anyone. Therefore Peter is the first to have authority over the church. Peter is also head of the church is in Matthew 16:19 “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Meaning that Peter does just hold the keys of the the physical Church but also the spiritual one. Therefore Peter is the first out of the twelve to receive spiritual authority over the Church. Even so in Matthew 16:18 Jesus says that “And I tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.” Meaning that peter is the source of all the churches knowledge since he is the foundation that the Church will grow from. With this we a can now say that Peter is the head of the

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