I’m still waiting for someone to show me where in Scripture it says “sola scriptura.”
Some people have diviated from these and turned to meaningless talk, wanting to be teachers of the law, but without understanding either what they are saying or what they assert with such assurance. Timothy 1-6/7
Right next to where it says “Trinity.”
“Jesus, Compassionate High Priest, Therefore since we hve a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin. So let us confidently approach the throne of grace to recieve mercy and to find grace for timely help. Heb 4-14/16
(The author is confident of his access to the throne of Christ and,)
Heb 5 1-10 Every high priest is taken from among men and made their representative before God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He is able to deal patiently with the ignorant and erring for he himself is beset by WEAKNESS and so for this reason must make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.
In the same way, it was not Christ who glorified himself in becoming high priest, but rather the one who said to him:
You are my son, this day I have begotton you. Just as he says in another place,
You are a Priest Forever
according to the order of
Melchizedek.”
In the days when he was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered, and when he was made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him
declared by God high priest according
to the order of Melchizedek.”
(This means according to Christian tradition Melchizedek “priest of the God most high: as a prefiguration of the priesthood of Christ, the unique high priest after the order of Melchizedek, holy, blameless, unstained by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified by the cross.
(It Should be noted that Melchizedek was not a Levi. He had no part in the Levite tradition. His was an entirely different order. )
Genesis 14-18 Melchizedeck prefigures the Great High Priest
“Melchizedeck, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine, and being a priest of God Most High, he blessed Abran with these words: Blessed be Abram by God Most High, the creator of heaven and earth, And blessed be God Most High, who delivered your foes into your hand.”
(Salem is traditionally identified with Jerusalem.)
The Redemptive power of the sacrifice is unique and accomplished once and for all; yet it is made present in the Eucharistic sacrifice of the Church. The same is true of the one priesthood of Christ, it is made present through the ministerial priesthood without diminishing the uniqueness of Christ’s priesthood.
“Only Christ is the true priest, the others being only his ministers” Heb 8-4
And those others in a direct Apostolic line acting in accordance with Christ’s mandate at the Last Supper.