***No. It’s half the truth. Christ is a priest forever. Forever. That doesn’t mean one-time over and done with..it means the condition of his priesthood lasts for all time—once for all.***
I was citing scripture:
For by one offering he has PERFECTED FOREVER those who are being sanctified. ~ Hebrews 10:14
Christ is priest forever. True.
Them being sanctified are already perfected forever by that one offering. True.
It is Rome that has the half truth.
For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
One offering by ONE priest that perfected forever the holy ones. There is NOW no longer an offering for sin.
Rome is wrong.
Her priesthood is inferior.
Her sacerdotalism is a sin against the perfect offering of Christ.
Christ no longer works to atone sin: he SITS.
Let Jesus get off the cross.
Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
As Paul says, I know nothing against myself. My King and Priest has declared me perfect forever. It is he who stand at the Mercy Seat on my behalf and declares: This one has been perfected forever.
Therefore, Lord Calvinus may boldly enter the Holiest to offer up his own sacrifices, not for sin, of which I have no consciousness, but of other things. I’m sorry Catholics are missing the boat, but you will have an eternity to catch up when you figure out you not longer need a Pope.
Claud, on the other hand, with fear and trembling allows the Holiest to boldly enter him.
"Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?" - 1 Cor 10
If we say, 'We are without sin,' we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. -- 1 John 1:8