Even more interesting. Your posts would seem to indicate that your objections are not with the actions of the priests, but that it is limited to the trained priesthood of Jesus, and not open to anyone who wanders by. I take these posts as further evidence that you would want to be your own Pope.
What are the sacraments, to your understanding, and what is their definition? When, and how often do you ask God to consecrate the sacraments? When, and how often do you ask God to consecrate the Body and Blood? How is the prayer done? Do you sit, stand, kneel?
The office of "Pope" is a fraud. I do not believe anyone is Pope, not myself or anyone. Christ does not need a "Vicar" on the earth. Christ is present wherever two or three are gathered together in his name. Is the Pope present wherever two or three are gathered together in his name? I suspect not.
What are the sacraments, to your understanding, and what is their definition? When, and how often do you ask God to consecrate the sacraments? When, and how often do you ask God to consecrate the Body and Blood? How is the prayer done? Do you sit, stand, kneel?
There is no magic formula. Wherever two or three are gathered together in his name....
All members of the Apsotolic Church are priests, buit some are ordianed priests. Protestants object to ordained priesthood, although the New Testament is full of evidence to apostolic ordinations. They object to ordianed priesthood as something "magic" and inherently "pagan." But if they ever bothered to actually learn what they are criticizing they'd find that priests have no magical powers but are simply chosen to call on the Holy Spirit to effect a change (the "keys"), all of which is in the New Testament.
Luke 22:
[17] And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, "Take this, and divide it among yourselves;
[18] for I tell you that from now on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."
[19] And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
[20] And likewise the cup after supper, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.