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Judy, elders and bishops are the same thing in Scripture. The passage
that Bill quotes is "bishop" in the KJV. I thought that was the version of
your Bible.
You still don't get the situation in Geneva. John Calvin was brought
to Geneva to help them organize a "reformed" church. Calvin outlined an
organization with Doctors, Pastors, Deacons, and Elders. The powers went
only as far as excommunication. This was the only power that Calvin had,
and when he exercised it once to the chagrin of the city council, he himself was
banished from Geneva for 3 years, until a new city council had invited him
back. In regards to Servetus, Calvin had NO POWER or AUTHORITY to put him
to death, as mandated by his own outline of powers of the church. His
involvement was by exhorting the city council to do something about this man,
and then by making the case for how Servetus had blasphemed the name of
God. So your question of, "how would it have been possible for one of
these men living in Geneva to reign in John Calvin," has already been
answered. All they had to do was say to Calvin, "no." That's
it. In fact, Servetus had made the case that Calvin should be the one on
trial and he sought to have Calvin put to death and all his belongings given to
Servetus. The council took no action on his exhortation. What would
history have been like if they had accepted Servetus's arguments instead of
Calvin's? Think about it.
I'm off to meeting with the saints now. God bless.
Peace be with you.
David Miller.
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