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V e r s e b y V e r s e
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This Rock
Volume 4, Number 12
 December 1993 
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FUNDAMENTALISTS respond to the claim that the
pope is the Vicar of Christ by stating, "There is no vicar of
Christ on earth except the Holy Spirit!" It is true that he Holy
Spirit is a vicar of Christ (John 15:26, 16:12-15), but there may
be others also. The term "vicar" means "a substitute;
esp. an under-servant [who substitutes]."
"After this the Lord appointed seventy others,
and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place
where he himself was about to come. And he said to them . . . `He
who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he
who rejects me rejects him who sent me'" (Luke 10:1-2, 16).
"So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making
his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled
to God" (2 Corinthians 5:20).
"[A]nd though my condition was a trial to
you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel
of God, as Christ Jesus" (Gal. 4:14).
"[Ananias] sold a piece of property, and
. . . kept back some of the proceeds, and brought only a part and
laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, `Ananias, why has Satan
filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part
of the proceeds of the land? . . . You have not lied to men but to
God.' When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died. And great
fear came upon all who heard of it" (Acts 5:1-5).
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