To: drstevej
Moreover, my brethren, this doctrine overwhelms as with an avalanche all the claims of priestcraft. Let it be told to men that they are saved by God, and they say at once, "Then what is the good of the priest?" If they are told it is God's grace then they say, "Then you do not want our money to buy masses and absolutions," and down goes the priest at once. Beloved, this is a battering ram that God uses with which to shake the gates of hell. How much more forcible than the pretty essays of many divines, which have no more power than bulrushes, no more light than smoking flax.And there goes the authority of the priests and the worship of the temple without which the chaff blows away
3 posted on
05/17/2003 7:15:15 PM PDT by
JesseShurun
(The Hazzardous Duke)
To: restornu
kind of speaks to the "authority" found only in some priesthoods, wouldn't you say?
4 posted on
05/17/2003 7:18:57 PM PDT by
JesseShurun
(The Hazzardous Duke)
To: JesseShurun
Jesus, the only Priest we need.
5 posted on
05/17/2003 7:21:40 PM PDT by
drstevej
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