Lin

” And, my friend, please do know that they are not God’s anointed. No one but Jesus is God’s anointed. This is a tactic that many use as a “thought-stopping” technique. It doesn’t work with me because I know that we are to test all things. ”

Cheryl, what does this in 1 John mean? I always thought it meant that all true believers were anointed:
20But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.21I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. In the same vein, Peter writes that we are all a Holy Priesthood.

But this idea of ‘God’s special anointed’ is making headway in many denominations. I am hearing it all the time. It feeds into this topic…if the pastor or elders are God’s anointed…and the husband is ‘priest’…then the woman has no chance. She is burdened with many authorities. It really is a ‘thought stopping’ statement and I think it is meant to be by many in leadership. Where do they get this ‘God’s anointed’ teaching as if they are ‘set apart’ with special revelation or something?

Is it a hold over from the clergy/laity distinction brought into the church? NT scripture just does not support this.

All these issues…women’s roles…God’s anointed….husband as priest…all evolve from wrong teaching on ‘authority’.