The Bible does not give one person authority to govern a local church.

1. As the Bishop & Pastor of The True Body of Christ I am clearly pointing to an elitist view that at this point our church The True Body of Christ is the only true church and the only place where you are able to truly learn the right way to follow Christ. You have not been awakened to truth by the Holy Spirit because you have not been taught the right way to follow Christ so that you can truly gain access to the Holy Spirit. I started the conversation explaining that EVERYTHING you know and have learned about Christ is WRONG. So at this point you are only using your own corrupt mind to try and understand the things of God and until you start over and allow yourself to be taught the truth you will remain lost. You cannot gain access to the Holy Spirit until you have been taught the right way to follow Christ and The True Body of Christ is the only place where you are able to do that at this point. As far as you calling it a cult newsflash every major religion even Christianity by definition is a cult....lol. 2. You say I did not provide anything of substance because you are not ready to listen and learn yet you are to focused on fighting. That is what the Bible means when it says they have eyes but cannot see and ears but cannot hear. 3. Wikipedia is not a creditable reference because it is just someones opinion. Also I was not asking you if it was a dictatorship I was telling you that it is a dictatorship. Now the scriptures that you provided do not say that the leaders of the church are not to have authority or that they are not able to govern over the people. What the scriptures are saying is that as leaders it is our job to lead with the will of God and the well being of the people being the first priority not our own personal gain. As leaders of the church we are to be the voice of God so that the will of God and the will of God alone is done and we are not to lead to build up our ego, pride, riches or any other reason. 4. Again you show you dislike for bad leadership and that is the root of your problem you are rolling Godly leadership and corrupt leadership into one ball and that is not what you should do. There is no illusion of Satan, Satan came and tempted Jesus so the threat of Satan is real. Now when Jesus corrected Peter and told him to get thee behind me Satan that shows the need for leadership and the power to govern. When Paul corrected Peter when he was being a hypocrite that again shows the need for leadership and the power to govern. When Paul wrote the letter to the Corinthians that again shows the need for leadership and the power to govern. Paul did not write a joint letter, he wrote a letter directly from himself telling them what they could and couldn't do again that is a clear example of leadership, authority and the power the govern. Nothing in the bible supports your idea that the leaders of the church do not have authority or the power to govern over the people. The only thing the Bible says is that they must do it the right way and not the wrong way. 5. Also your 'those guys are just stupid sheep' comment sounded funny to you but it is sad because the Bible says that people are like lost sheep, which is clearly the point you are missing. That is why a Pastor is a shepherd meaning the person that leads the lost sheep to where they need to go because on their own the sheep would never make it. You really have NO CLUE. 6. You clearly need to take some time and actually read your bible. All of the letters to the churches were letters with direct instructions by one person. His letter to Timothy again direct instructions. 1 John 2:27 "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." Apparently, John did not feel his leadership was perpetually necessary, unlike the militaristic philosophy of my opponent. 7. This passage is NOT talking to you. In this passage John is talking to people he already knew were walking with Christ the right way. When a person has completed the process of fully understanding how to walk with Christ the right way and how to truly hear from God, that person is no longer in need of a leader they become a leader but that is not the position that you are in and that is not the position that most of the world is in. It is either truth or not. My opponent has failed to provide one example in scripture where a local assembly was led by a single pastor, or that a pastor has been given such authority. 8. In the book of Corinthians Paul is the only person teaching, the same is true in countless other books of the New Testament. 9. So there is no need for knowing if someone is really listening to God or not? Do you understand what you are saying in a Bible where it clearly explains that there will be false teachers, in a bible where the Pharisee's who were the children of Abraham and known as the people of God at that time where the people that actually killed Jesus and was incorrectly teaching the word of God to countless people. After all of that you are telling me that it does not matter if the leader is actually listening to God or not. You are truly lost and you need to start over and really learn the right way to follow Christ. You need to forget about the debate and take this opportunity to become a part of The True Body of Christ and actually learn the right way to follow Christ because right now you are completely lost. Also this is your opportunity to truly learn the right way to follow Christ and the Bible is clear that if you are given and opportunity to truly learn the right way to follow Christ and you reject it, then it will be better for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah then it will be for you.