[Fifthmark]

For a priest to mediate in any way between Man and Christ also puts him as a mediator in between Man and God, which violates the clear message of Hebrews...

You'll notice that St. Paul was speaking in the present tense at the time he wrote his Epistle to the Hebrews:

"For every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins: Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity. And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was" (Hebrews v.1-4)

[Buggman]

You'll notice that St. Paul was speaking in the present tense at the time he wrote his Epistle to the Hebrews:

I'll double-check the Greek when I get home, but allowing for that, what's your point? (And I mean that seriously, not snottily.)