MR 5.A Ascension

The historic view of the papacy has been etreemely marred by, as Fr. Longeneck said, money and abuse of power. However, looking at the papacy biblicly, we see evidence for the papacy as it stands today. The Nicene Creed says that authority was passed down through the appostles not randomly as a democracy would have. Therefore, the curch could be lead by the few ordained by the appostles. Fr. Dwight says that the church resembles christ's kingdom, and therefore needs a sole ruler on earth to control and guide his church until judgment day when Jesus reclaims complete control of the church.

This is an analysis because we are not reinstating what was said in the passage or the text. We are incorporating both of them and adding our own opinion on the power of the Church's leaders. We use the Nince Creed as an aid in the development of our analysis. We bring in some outside sources. Finally we establish a full understanding of the authority of the Church.