...where is the verse in the Bible that mentions priests become an alter Christos ???
Where is the verse in the bible that mentions sola Scriptura ???
C’mon we’re talking about priest becoming another Christ,
surely you can back that up with something !
I don’t get into explanatory discussions with enemies of His Church. It turns into a big game of gotcha.
You wrote:
“C’mon we’re talking about priest becoming another Christ,
surely you can back that up with something !”
If you actually read the New Testament you would see that Christ gives authority to the Apostles to extend what was exclusively His mission: John 20:19-23.
Jesus had already told them they could do nothing without Him in John 15:5. And continuing on that same line of John 20 about the forgiveness of sins look at 2 Cor. 2:10. Look especially at an older translation like the Confraternity, Douay-Rheims or even the KJV. Look at what St. Paul said:
10To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
Notice how St. Paul says he forgave in the PERSON OF CHRIST? Catholics usually use the Latin when we refer to that principle: in persona Christi. Ever hear of it? It has everything to do with this topic. As Aquinas wrote:
But this cannot be said of Christ; for the Apostle says (Heb. vii. 25): Coming of Himself to God, always living to make intercession for us…And therefore it is not fitting for Christ to be the recipient of the effect of His priesthood, but rather to communicate it to others. For the influence of the first agent in every genus is such that it receives nothing in that genus: thus the sun gives but does not receive light…Now Christ is the fountain-head of the entire priesthood: for the priest of the Old Law was a figure of Him; while the priest of the New Law works in his person, according to 2 Cor. ii. 10: For what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned anything, for your sakes have I done in the person of Christ.