Why should I trust the “Berean Beacon” when I can go straight to Jesus in John 20 ... and hear Jesus tell me to go to the priest? I don’t need any website telling me what the Bible means, according to some manmade tradition.
Unlike Rome, I never say “trust ME.” And Richard Bennett, the former Irish priest of Berean Beacon wouldn’t say it either. I tell everyone to be a BEREAN (read Acts 17) and search out the Scriptures to prove that what I am saying is true. You can look to others in the faith for guidance, but God’s Word is the final authority.
And that passage doesn’t teach what you think it does AT ALL. Scripture must be read in light of other Scripture. Wicked men create all sorts of false doctrines by taking isolated passages out of their rightful contexts or by not considering them in light of other passages dealing with the same topic. Please note there isn’t one word about priests in that passage. NOT ONE. You will search in vain for New Testament passages teaching the creation of the priesthood. However, in the New Testament Peter did teach that all those in Christ are a “royal priesthood.”
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light”
—1 Peter 2:9
“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”
—Hebrews 4:16