The Sacram
ents are performed – Christ teaches (Teacher; the Holy Spirit directly and through the Spirit-bearers), and the custodian (bishop, presbyter) only creates conditions for the educational process (so that the school roof does not leak, desks and chairs are intact, the lock on the door is working, the windows are glazed (so there are no drafts, it is not cold in winter), etc. The custodian has no direct relation to the Teacher-student teaching! He is not a mediator between the Teacher (God) and the students (Christians or catechumens). There is no mediator between God and man in the Church! Every person directly (“straight”), without a priest-mediator (the essence of the priesthood ministry among pagans is precisely to be a mediator between God (in Old Testament Judaism) or gods or higher forces (among pagans) and people; in the New Testament Christians, Christ’s – all priests (royal priesthood!); there are no gaps between the Christian and God, and each member of the Body of the Eucharist (Church) without intermediaries in the Holy Spirit through the Son knows (has access to) the Father!) communicates with God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. And the custodian (bishop, presbyter) ensures (creates) the best conditions for students and the learning process (prepares for entry into the Truth – creates the best conditions for the revelation of the Kingdom of God and the entry of the faithful into It (its actualization) – see Part II in detail).
If you studied to be a custodian-priest (in a scholastic “spiritual” academy-seminary) – by the book (Typikon, Trebnik, Service Book…) to perform the ministry, and not in the prophetic school (in the Parish-Eucharist – Acquiring the Holy Spirit), then do not deceive yourself and do not deceive, that you are an apostle, teacher, prophet, father… (or even just a Christian, not to mention some ministry). To be an apostle (missionary), teacher, prophet… (to bear a grace ministry – to be chosen for this ministry by God (the Holy Spirit), and not by people (others or self-willed), you need to graduate from the catechumens institute, that is, to become a member of the Parish-Eucharist, and living the parish (in marital relations with Christ, in His Body, in the Church, in the Body of hypostatic being in Trinitarian Love) Eucharistic life, to acquire the Holy Spirit (which is acquired only in parish-eucharistic marital relations with Christ). Therefore, people choose and appoint custodians (bishops, presbyters) for ministry – this is the maximum. Custodians are chosen for ministry by people, not by God! Indeed, how can God choose (that is, give the Holy Spirit) to a sinner who does not repent, that is, does not have the beginnings of catholic consciousness, that is, not a parishioner (so if you deceive, people will baptize you, but the Holy Spirit will not; people will ordain you (perform the ordination rite), but the Holy Spirit will not! But what you choose, you have! People choose their custodians (who very rarely have the beginnings of the Holy Spirit), who think they are also apostolic successors, and teachers, and elders-prophets, and…, and… And they are just ordinary illiterate (in the field of the Holy Spirit) laborers (Christ’s Apostles warned that the time would come when they “would choose (and place on the thrones) themselves teachers (priests) according to their whims, who would indulge their desires and heresies.” Therefore, scholastic schools (where they teach “theology” (“knowledge” of god(s)) through books (external word – through sight, hearing…), and not through Eucharistic, parish life) the maximum they can do is to give the world priests-priests, custodians (more or less qualified), but by no means apostles, teachers, elders-prophets! Therefore, there are chosen by God and chosen by people, anointed by God with the Holy Spirit and anointed by people with holy chrism (and not the Holy Spirit!)! Very rarely, those anointed by people are also anointed by God!
You were surprised (or maybe outraged), hearing that priests (bishops, presbyters) are chosen and placed for ministry by people, and not by God (with rare exceptions, when they choose an anointed by the Holy Spirit (professor, academician – see above)). Historical facts – a sea (darkness; I will not list them – Google to help you, it “knows” everything), when for various satanic motivations (which have nothing to do with God, the Church, the Holy Spirit, the Kingdom of God, but if they do, then only with the prefix “anti” – anti-Christian, atheistic) open unbelievers, idolaters, non-Christians were chosen and ordained for episcopal (presbyteral) ministry (!?); when emperors and various political parties placed their people on episcopal (patriarchal, papal…) thrones, pursuing political goals, who were to serve the empire or the political ambitions of the rulers of this age (hence, as a result, the so-called “robber councils” of such custodians (priests-priests), who condemned and persecuted the Truth (called the Truth heresy, and their heresies – Orthodoxy!?), gave Christians to torture, exile, that is, crucified Christ!); and simony – when a “warm” place of golden profit (diocese, parish) was bought for money, etc. And you think that the Lord (the Holy Spirit) took part in those synagogues of Satan?! That the Holy Spirit also cried out “axios” (worthy) to the servants of Satan and just pagans?! That (really) the Holy Spirit took part in various bribes (simony), corruption, manipulations, political manipulations, murders, lies, cynicism…?! You think that in such ordinations the Sacrament was performed (the Holy Spirit was received)?! What madness and blasphemy! Judas the traitor was chosen and called to ministry by the Lord Himself (the Holy Spirit), and Judas later perished! So, if not all chosen by God, who received the Holy Spirit (were accepted into the parish – into Eucharistic communion in the Holy Spirit), remained faithful, what can be said about those chosen by people (and not by God). Judas was chosen by the Lord, and those priests-priests were chosen by the people themselves, and said: you will be our apostles, teachers, prophets. What you chose, you have. Do not forget: Sacraments are not performed – it is already accomplished (everything is already deified), and the Church through the rites of the faithful in the Parish-Eucharist manifests the Truth (actualizes the Kingdom of God, which has already come! – see Part II). Can a Judas create conditions for the revelation of the Kingdom of God, catechize someone, lead to Christ (help to enter the state of acquiring the Holy Spirit), if he has the spirit of antichrist and goes against Christ?! God gave people freedom! Do you want non-humans, Satanists, heretics to rule over you – please, but do not blame God for it, for He generously gives the Holy Spirit to all!