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Catholic priests do not have a priesthood apart from or different than that of Christ. There is only one High Priest, and Catholic priests are configured to Christ the High Priest by the grace of God. Christ ministers his priesthood through them.

Not true at all...Where did this crazy idea come from...It's certainly not biblical...If fact, it is anti-biblical

Jesus is now sitting on the throne of Grace...When the veil was ripped open, we all have access to that throne of Grace...

Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

What is clear from this discourse is the complete failure of the author to understand what it actually means to be a Christian...He doesn't understand the mystery of the church...

Col 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Apparently this is another allegory to your religion...

Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

This is the mystery that was revealed to the church...

We do not have to go to heaven (although we have a presence there) to be at the throne of Grace...We do not have to go into a building to find Jesus and be in his presence...We don't need a priest (or Mary or a Saint) to pass on a message to Jesus for us...WE ARE ALREADY THERE...

We are at the throne of Grace, beyond the ripped veil every minute of every day regardless of where we are at...HE is right inside of us...

Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

If God is not within you as Paul taught to the church, you do not belong to Jesus...

4 posted on 08/01/2015 10:20:13 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool

Your comment: “If God is not within you as Paul taught to the church, you do not belong to Jesus...”

Perhaps you do not accept that Jesus was a great leader and formed His Church through the Apostles and their successors.

Didn’t Jesus command his Apostles and their successors to go teach and Baptize all?

You may feel the opportunity to reach Jesus on your own, but you shouldn’t discount Catholic priests that are following the path of Jesus and the apostles.


6 posted on 08/01/2015 10:40:41 AM PDT by ADSUM
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