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To: NYer
You think this is good news?

I see it as a greater division between believers and God. The tearing of the veil in the Temple (the one that separated the congregants from the priest) represented the need to have no priest--that believers could go directly to the Lord without a priest. Sames goes for taking of the bread. One more thing to keep believers further from direct contact with the Lord--My greatest reason for breaking with the Catholic Church and embracing Bible-based Christianity.

Go ahead and attack--I am wearing the armor of Christ and it's flame retardant.

65 posted on 02/25/2008 10:53:48 AM PST by DallasDeb ((a.k.a. USAFA2006Mom!))
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To: DallasDeb
Yes, the priesthood of Aaron is finished, but the priesthood of Christ, the priesthood of Melchisedech is that of the New Testament. Read this excerpt from Hebrews and tell me if you still think the priesthood has been abolished.

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. So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech. Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence. And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered: And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation. Called by God a high priest according to the order of Melchisedech.

-Hebrews 5: 1-10

67 posted on 02/25/2008 11:04:22 AM PST by Pyro7480 ("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
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