THESIS 53: THE CIVIL AUTHORITY OF THE PASTOR: CHRIST THE SHEPHERD

The "shepherd" or "pastor" is a "civil" office,[203] again showing the mythical nature of our modern conception of "church-state separation."[204] The Kingdom was established by the Christ born in Bethlehem; "He shall shepherd His people."[205]

Exposition

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

203. Ezekiel 34; Jeremiah 23; Isaiah 44:28; Psalm 78:71-72

204. Ezekiel 37:24-28; Revelation 19:15-16.

205. Matthew 2:4-6; #50.

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