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To: dsc; hinckley buzzard
A doctor has superior knowledge of medicine. Why doesn’t a priest have superior knowledge of theology?

If he did then he should know that in no place does the Holy Spirit cal NT pastors "priests," while the use of priest is defended by the use of an etymological fallacy, since "priest" etymologically is derived from presbyteros due to imposed functional equivalence. See here .

222 posted on 07/26/2014 8:30:26 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

“If he did then he should know that in no place does the Holy Spirit cal NT pastors “priests,”

You really think that is properly termed theology? That is a time-wasting, nonsensical irrelevancy.

“while the use of priest is defended by the use of an etymological fallacy, since “priest” etymologically is derived from presbyteros due to imposed functional equivalence.”

And on you go with silliness intended to divert and waste a person’s intellectual energy on the question of whether a word in a language not even extant at the time of Paul is the etymological equivalent of a Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic word that he might have used.

And all, you hope, without alerting anyone to the fact that it doesn’t matter in the least.


232 posted on 07/26/2014 9:48:44 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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