The Pastor: Where Did He Come From?
Editor’s Note: This article has been published with the author’s permission. It is an excerpt from Frank Viola’s book: “Pagan Christianity: The Origins of Our Modern Church Practices.” This book and others by Frank Viola may be purchased from his website Present Testimony Ministries It is a universal tendency in the Christian religion, as in many other religions, to give a theological interpretation to institutions which have developed gradually through a period of time for the sake of practical usefulness, and then read that interpretation back into the earliest periods and infancy of these institutions, attaching them to an age when in fact nobody imagined that they had such a meaning. -Richard Hanson The Pastor.[1] He is the fundamental figure of the Protestant faith. He is the chief, cook, and bottle-washer of todays Christianity. So prevailing is the Pastor in the minds of most Christians that he is better known, more highly praised, and more heavily relied upon than Jesus Christ
