Since priests take a vow of poverty [supposedly], why is it that the Pope wears fabulous clothes?

Even Satan can appear humble and many Religions have created a CLERGY/LAITY class, not Jesus or the Bible. Should There Be a Clergy-Laity Distinction? Most Reverend, Right Reverend, Father, Most Holy Father, Rabbi, His Eminence, His Excellency, His Holiness, His All-Holiness—these are some of the titles that distinguish the clergy of various religions from the laity.

The separation of the clergy from the laity is common to many religions, but is the arrangement from God, or is it a human tradition? More important, does it have God’s approval? IN THE New Testament and during the early apostolic times there is no mention of clergy or laity,” wrote professor of theology Cletus Wessels.

The Encyclopedia of Christianity states: “There gradually arose a differentiation into clergy as the officeholders and the laity as the rest . . .

‘Ordinary’ church members now came to be seen as an unqualified mass.” That differentiation became prominent during the third century C.E.—more than two hundred years after Jesus Christ! If, then, the clergy-laity distinction is not based on the model set by Jesus’ apostles and other early Christians, does that make it wrong?

According to the Bible, yes. Consider why. All You Are Brothers God’s Word tells us that all Christians serve as God’s ministers and that none is above or beneath the other.

(2 Corinthians 3:5, 6) “There was a very positive insistence on the absence of class” among early Christians, says religion writer Alexandre Faivre. That “absence of class” harmonizes with Jesus’ words to his followers: “All you are brothers.”—Matthew 23:8.

Like a 5 star general wearing all his decorations; it is his uniform. That Pope is more of a politician than a religious leader. One congressman was disappointed in his address to congress because he never once mentioned the gospel.

It was all politics. He has said that everyone will go to heaven, including atheists, homosexuals and Muslims etc. That is not what the Bible says. I don't think he is even a Christian at all.

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