The One Head | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 23, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 50.

The One Head.

The Catholic Mirror of December 11 well says in its "Catholic Truth" department:—

"The church is of necessity, and by divine institution, one; therefore she must always have a primate or chief pastor; and as she is to last to the end of time, so the primacy must also last, and perpetually abide in her, as it belongs essentially to her nature and institution."

To the oneness of his church the Word of God bears abundant evidence. The wonderful prayer of Jesus in John 17 is a living prayer of the ages for oneness. We are expressly told that the church is the body, and that "there is one body" and that "the body is one." Eph. 4:4; 1 Cor. 12:12. A body with two heads is a monstrosity. And that the body might never have two or more heads, God placed that headship in Jesus Christ, who is "the same yesterday and to-day, and forever." Heb. 13:8. "He is the head of the body, the church," for God "gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body." Col. 1:18; Eph. 1:22, 23. There is no place for any other body on the head or place for any other head on the body. Both are bound together by the one life, the "one Spirit." Eph. 4:4; 1 Cor. 12:13.