The point of Christ continual interaction with The Pharisees and Sadducees wasn’t that a formal and educated priesthood was wrong. God himself throughout the Old Testament establish the priesthood.
The problem with them is exactly what protestants do reguraly; they’d take little pieces of scripture out of context and apply them to situations, completely misinterpreting the greater meaning of scripture in the process. Meantime they lived hypocritical lives, and used religion for financial gain.
Not at all unlike the televangeistas and TBN idols who mangle scripture for financial gain daily.
exactly. Pharisees were not all priests. Besides, God established royal priesthood (and I don't remember Christ ever abolishing it!). Just because human corruption made it corrupt does not change the fact that God wants royal priesthood.
It was the way the Pharisees approach the Law and the Prophets that was wrong, not the priesthood.