No Officer Owns the Truth
Ordination confers office. It does not confer ownership of the truth.
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Ordination confers office. It does not confer ownership of the truth.
Open record →Doctrinal error becomes disqualifying for office through its gravity, clarity, public reach, obstinacy, and harm, as judged by lawful ecclesiastical process.
Open record →Orthodox formulas cannot excuse a method that functionally relocates final authority from the self-attesting Word to autonomous human judgment.
Open record →An elder is Christ’s herald, steward, shepherd, and watchman; fitness for office therefore requires submission to revelation rather than judgment over it.
Open record →Human judgment is unavoidable, but it is faithful only when reason, evidence, church, and scholarship recognize rather than create divine authority.
Open record →Every human judge—elder, scholar, council, or private reader—must be judged by the self-attesting Word that speaks with God’s own authority.
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