The Bible is the only inspired source man has to the things in the mind of God. Man made traditions are not inspired and these man made traditions not only contradict the Bible but often contradict each other. In Romans 10:1-3 Paul lamented over the fact his brethren in the flesh, the Jews, were lost for following their own traditions (own righteousness) rather than submitting to God's righteousness.
An example of man made tradition....above you make reference to a "clergy" a few times yet the Bible does not teach there are different classes of Christians, clergy and laity. All Christians are "one" in Christ (Galatians 3:28; John 17:20-21) and each and every Christian is a priest being part of the NT priesthood (1 Peter 2:5-9). Though Paul held the office of an Apostle, he called himself a 'brother' and 'fellow servant' with other Christians as Epaphras (Colossians 1:7) Epaphroditus (Philippians 2:25) Tychicus (Colossians 4:7), etc. All Christians are brothers and sisters.
The Greek word
kleros (clergy) Colossians 1:12 refers to an inheritence, ALL Christians are God's lot/inheritence, not just some. Yet the word
laikos (laity) is not found in the NT. But laos (people) is found in the NT referring to ALL Christians- "
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people (laos); that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" 1 Peter 2:9. In the Bible, no distinction is made between
kleros and
laikos for ALL Christians are
kleros and
loas. Romans 12:3-7 Christians have different
functions but are not divided into separate classes as clergy and laity but all are servants of Christ, (Philippians 1:1; Ephesians 6:6).
Therefore there is no place for clerical titles within Christ's church:
Are Preachers To Be Called "Reverend"?
Each person can adopt their own interpretation but that does not mean each person's interpretation is correct. God's word is truth (John 17:17) and teaches 'one' system of faith (Ephesians 4:5) and not a plethora of varying, contradicting faith
S. Truth by its nature is very narrow and never contradicts itself. On judgment day there will be a permanent, eternal separation from those who read and understood the Bible correctly (Ephsians 3:4) from those who did not. A separation from those who walked by the 'same rule' (Galatians 6:16; Philippians 3:16) from those that tried to change the Bible to fit a particular personal bias.