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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Normal for the Jews perhaps, not normal for God's church. Jesus did not desire any sort of clergy-laity structure in the church, all were equal in importance and function. The historical fact is that there was no clergy class in the early church.
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Jesus told Peter to "feed my sheep". Peter talks about "overseers". That is organization and that is hierarchical. A father and grandfather having authority in the family is a hierarchy, it is organization. This is why it is idiotic to use these terms as some kind of basis to identify "degradation". By definition, when a living organism dies and degrades it loses its organization.