This or that order of the church organically (and not mechanically—through reforms and revolutions) grows (and is not imposed) from the life of all its brothers and sisters! Therefore, it is necessary to reform one’s life, the reformation of repentance must be carried out in oneself,—and God will take care of the external, who arranges the external according to our internal, spiritual state! One must fight sin within oneself, not in others, because evil exists only in me, and outside me—Paradise (for details, see Part II)! According to the spiritual law: the spirit creates forms (orders) for itself, not vice versa. Therefore, the task of these excursions is one: to call all of us to repentance, to the renewal of the spirit from the state of egoism, selfhood, isolation, estrangement from community with brothers and sisters to the state of conciliarity, catholicity, to the state of being as communion with Others, life for Others and in Others, that is, to the state of Eucharistic, Parish, Catholic being! And until the labors of repentance of all members continue, we need to obey the current order of the church. The great patience of the saints (who, of course, understand everything) builds the church, its unshakability, inner adamant. If the hierarch is no good, ‘be obedient to him as a corpse’—the commandment of a great saint who lived in times of great disgrace of the hierarchy. The only thing with which there is no compromise in the church is heresy, it must be immediately exposed, and if the heretic does not want to repent (whoever he is: patriarch, metropolitan, bishop, presbyter…), listening to him (obeying) is a sin, for he is already a pagan and a tax collector (in relation to the church), even more—a enemy of truth, an antichrist).
And now let us remember why we made such a long excursion-description of the episcopal (presbyteral) ministry in the church. To prove the theorem that Christians do not kill. We showed that bishops (presbyters) are not priests, whose priesthood is different from the priesthood of every member of the ecclesia (church, people of God), but simple stewards, who do not bear spiritual
ministry (that is, bishops, presbyters—are not clergy!), but human, technical, to which clerics (bishops, presbyters) are elected by people, not by God. Therefore, if bishops-presbyters (who are not priests, not clergy; or if we say they are priests, then they are priests as much as every member of the church—the royal priesthood—officiates the orders of the sacraments, officiates every faithful to Christ, and not the steward-supervisor himself) are not allowed to kill people, then even more so those whom they (rulers!?) serve (and do not rule over!). The theorem is proven.
By the way, for better understanding what we are talking about, we will say a few more words concerning (pointing to…) the essence of the hierarchical (presbyter, bishop) ministry in the church.
Apostles, teachers, prophets—these are the main ministries in the Church! Unfortunately, they are not visible now! And the steward, the church elder (presbyter, bishop), just because he is a steward, has attributed to himself this ministry (apostle (successor (inheritor) of the apostles!?), prophet, teacher—not having the Holy Spirit)! And the catechumens were deceived and believed this (and the priests themselves are convinced that they are apostolic successors)! This is the substitution and deception of Satan! The priests, instead of honestly admitting that they are not those whom people consider them to be (the fruits of ungodliness are sometimes so evident that even with immoral pagans they cannot be compared—the latter are a hundred times better than the priests), whom people want to see them as—elders, seers, teachers…—be our spiritual father (an unspiritual pagan is asked to be a spiritual father!?), pastor, teacher!? (see the prophecy in the book of Isaiah in the third chapter: ‘And I will give them children as their leaders, and babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the young will be insolent towards the elder, and the base towards the honorable. A man will seize his brother in the house of his father, saying: “You have clothing, be our leader, and let these ruins be under your charge.” But he will swear, saying: “I cannot heal the society’s wounds; and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; do not make me a leader of the people.” Thus Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His glory. The expression of their faces testifies against them, and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their souls! For they have brought evil upon themselves.’ But now the picture is even more terrible because the priests not only do not admit that they are poor and naked but, on the contrary, pretend to be apostolic successors, teachers, and leaders—guides to the Kingdom of God; and the dark people grab the priests by the hands and beg: ‘You have priestly clothes and a beard (and even a diploma of ‘doctor’ of ‘theology’ to boot, or even a diploma of a professor of KPBA!?), be our pastor and spiritual father!’ and they (priests-stewards) not only do not refuse this power but also demand obedience and honor, like rulers!?—a sad sight of burning with Gehenna’s fire of Sodom and Gomorrah).