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To: A.J.Armitage
Reads like some Protestant views on the priesthood to me (link @ #135):

"In Islam there’s no church as an institution as such, there’s no clergy. Islam doesn’t accept the notion that a particular group of people can claim for themselves to be representatives of God on earth. The entire human race is regarded, in a sense, as representatives of God on earth."

170 posted on 02/07/2005 10:01:24 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: Destro
You changed the subject. And you're still wrong, because Protestants do have institutional churches. Obviously the organization varies based on the ecclesiology. Mine has a plurality of elders. You have not demonstrated that Islam has a priesthood of the believer because you would need to show they have a concept of "priesthood" in the first place. Maybe the Shia have something comparable, but I'm pretty sure the Sunni don't. I don't think either has anything like the Levitical priesthood.
176 posted on 02/08/2005 1:58:43 PM PST by A.J.Armitage (http://calvinist-libertarians.blogspot.com/)
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