the Jewish magicsterical of 2000 years ago.
Christ wasn't impressed with it then.
I can't imagine He's impressed with it now.
This sort of hyper parochial mentality is part of what Christ died to abolish.
He died to restore each individual's fellowship with THE FATHER.
Yet again the enemy of our souls has used mankind's obsession with organized hoopla and law to distance individuals further and further from not just THE FATHER, but Christ and THE TRUTHs about God and about RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
Satan convinced individual after individual that they cannot approach God as DADDY through CHRIST'S BLOOD ALONE.
Therefore, they have to submit to wholesale and utterly depend upon layer upon layer of professional gatekeepers because satan has convinced each individual that Christ's Blood is insufficient alone to cover their wormy-ness.
So lock-step, day after day, the faithful submit to endless jury-rigged hoops that the "new" money-changers; PURPORTED soul-leveragers; glorifiers and RELIGIOUS [not spiritual] pontificators burden the serfs with.
Lots of Olympic class retch material there.
It is indeed tragic whenever a Christian believes that the Blood of Christ is in some way insufficient.
Many, I suspect, feel this way because of self-loathing. Because their past sins haunt them, they "will" not to receive God's forgiveness. Some might even see their attitude as extreme humility, but what it really is, is a lack of faith. By not receiving the forgiveness, they are in effect, telling God "I do not believe you, I do not trust you."
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. - I John 1:7-9
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Priesthood is not a profession, but rather a vocation. Other than that, yes. That's what the Bible says.
because satan has convinced each individual that Christ's Blood is insufficient alone to cover their wormy-ness.
Christ's blood is absolutely sufficient, there wouldn't be a priesthood without it, and you (and many like you, not getting personal) would have no chance of getting saved at all.