ScottA
Well-Known Member
I have received nothing from men, but from God alone, whom you speak against when you speak against the Spirit (against "spiritualizing") and God whom "is spirit."Typology is the study of foreshadow, so you can't read Isaiah 22 as a proof text. That is not how I presented it. It is prophetic, but not a prophecy per se. You have no criteria to determine what parts of the OT apply only to Israel and what parts apply to the Church. You don't have enough faith to believe that Jesus, the High Priest, has the authority to appoint an earthly steward. An invisible church cannot bind and loose anything. You haven't addressed the issue of "keys" either.
God is also called rock, that is a Catholic teaching you borrowed from us.
I would rather look to "men" who are qualified/ordained to teach, rather than spiritualize Jesus into a Manichean falsehood.
Nonetheless, you are wrong. There most certainly is criteria for what I have told you: The Old and the New Covenants, the Jews and the gentiles, and the two "folds" of Christ before and after the cross.
As for the "keys", Jesus also referred to the "keys" when He condemned the lawyers...for the sin of which you also commit:
Luke 11:52
“Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.”