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.
It was the way the Pharisees approach the Law and the Prophets that was wrong, not the priesthood.
Exactly. Jesus did not come to abolish anything established by the Father, but to fulfill it. Because of our baptism, we ALL share in the priesthood of Christ to some degree (says Peter). Some Protestants here are quite Donatist in outlook. They would have us destroy a divinely established thing because they don't think it is perfected enough here during the pilgrimage. Throw the baby out with the bathwater, I suppose...
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