Jesus chose twelve Apostles, did He not? He decided that it would be best if the knowledge of His Word came to others through people rather than directly from Himself. Otherwise He would have appeared directly to each and every one of us.
God created the world, and He wills to make use of His creatures to accomplish His will. This includes (especially!) the spreading of the faith in Him.
So while it is of course true that only through Jesus Christ can we come to the Father, it is likewise true that, because Jesus wills it, through others and with the help of others, we can come to Jesus. This includes the safeguarding of the faith.
and Jesus said you can not serve two masters, guess the pope missed that one. Jesus picked 12 to spread his gospel, as he knew he would be making the sacrifice for our sins to be forgiven. but then religion brought power , control and manipulation, and the teachings started to go off the rails, because power, control and manipulation no longer are Gods teachings. that's why martin Luther nailed pages filled with grievances on the church floor that were not being followed.
If there is agreement between what the Church teaches and what Christ proclaimed, we are not serving two masters.
The only agreement has been we have free will, after that it is Thy will be done, no exception to policy. What martin Luther found were many exceptions to policy, now who is in charge really ? may explain why the church is where it is today because of those exception to policy, Example the bible clearly states, no word will be added or subtracted or they will be removed from the book of life, yet these words were allowed to be changed ignoring the warning, I would be leery of anyone that has to look down to see God. we do have free will, and that means we will be held accountable for our choices.
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