1. Creedalism is in the best position to guard the supreme authority of Scripture.

2. Instead, we pay back everything we owe to Caesar, but we recognize Jehovah’s supreme authority.

3. The Greek word de·spoʹtes means one who possesses supreme authority, or absolute ownership and uncontrolled power.

4. Jehovah, the Supreme Authority on human nature, provides advice on the best method of bringing up children.

5. Conciliarism holds that the supreme authority of the church lies with a General Council, not with the pope.

6. He had judicial and military power, and although his actions were subject to review by the Senate, he wielded supreme authority in the province. —Ac 13:7; 18:12.

7. As deacon of the Hagia Sophia, Balsamon combined the supreme authority for all affairs of the patriarchate (as its “Chartophylax”) with a juridical office in the service of the state (“Homophylax”)

8. Often, when the reverence for the temple and the holy city was most strongly emphasized, intense contempt might be manifested for those who were at the moment the holders of the supreme authority in the mother-country.”

9. ‘‘Let us now Appoint the laws by which our country may remain in peace.’’ ‘The first of these, the external or political kingdom of Christ in the visible church, consists in his absolute and supreme authority, to Appoint the laws of his church, and rulers by these laws.’

10. ‘‘Let us now Appoint the laws by which our country may remain in peace.’’ ‘The first of these, the external or political kingdom of Christ in the visible church, consists in his absolute and supreme authority, to Appoint the laws of his church, and rulers by these laws.’