Just who in Scripture is the Vicar of Christ? I have an idea and it is not a man!
The True Vicar of Christ
Because there is a direct connection between the redemption of Christ and the ministry of the Holy Spirit, it is a soul damning error to mistake the work of the Holy Spirit as Vicar of Christ with the position or work of any man. As Christ Jesus had been the Master, Counselor and Guide to the believers He promised to send the Holy Spirit as His substitute so that He might abide with them forever. Catechism Paragraph 937
In believers' lives, the Holy Spirit has full, immediate, and universal influence, as the Scripture so wonderfully teaches, "now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed unto the same image from glory to glory, even as the Spirit of the Lord"
The work of the Spirit is transforming, we are changed from one degree of glorious grace unto another, until by that same grace one day we will ber perfect in and with HIm in glory forever.
The Bishop of Rome claimed to be the vicar of Caesar and his successors the rightful heirs to the Caesars. The city that had been the seat of power for the Roman Empire became the city for the Bishop of Rome to exercise his authority. Gradually other Bishops and national monarchs accepted him as vicar and successor to Caesar with the same supreme title of“Pontifex Maximus”. Next the Bishops of Rome claimed to be“The vicar of the prince of the apostles”
The True Vicar of Christ
Because there is a direct connection between the redemption of Christ and the ministry of the Holy Spirit, it is a soul damning error to mistake the work of the Holy Spirit as Vicar of Christ with the position or work of any man. As Christ Jesus had been the Master, Counselor and Guide to the believers He promised to send the Holy Spirit as His substitute so that He might abide with them forever. Catechism Paragraph 937
In believers' lives, the Holy Spirit has full, immediate, and universal influence, as the Scripture so wonderfully teaches, "now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed unto the same image from glory to glory, even as the Spirit of the Lord"
The work of the Spirit is transforming, we are changed from one degree of glorious grace unto another, until by that same grace one day we will ber perfect in and with HIm in glory forever.
The Bishop of Rome claimed to be the vicar of Caesar and his successors the rightful heirs to the Caesars. The city that had been the seat of power for the Roman Empire became the city for the Bishop of Rome to exercise his authority. Gradually other Bishops and national monarchs accepted him as vicar and successor to Caesar with the same supreme title of“Pontifex Maximus”. Next the Bishops of Rome claimed to be“The vicar of the prince of the apostles”

