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To: annalex

If a priest offers sacrifices - and that certainly was their role in Judaism - then the Christian has no need for priests, for we have no sacrifice to offer. Jesus did it himself, once for all.

Being ordained a deacon doesn’t mean you offer sacrifices. Being ordained an Elder does not either. That is where my objection to the word ‘priest’ comes from.

That is why the NT knows nothing of Christian priests, except in 1 Peter, where all believers are said to be “a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”

No sacrifice for forgiveness of sin, since there was only one, and it was past and not to be again.


223 posted on 11/05/2009 11:22:08 AM PST by Mr Rogers (I loathe the ground he slithers on!)
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To: Mr Rogers
You explain why in your confession there are no priests. However, if we are to take 1 Cor 11 seriously we should see that a sacrifice is occurring because the body of the Sacrificed is present.

It is also true that every baptized Christian is priest, prophet and king in his family, as St. Peter teaches. The word he used, by the way, "ιερατευμα " is not of the same root as "presbyteros".

224 posted on 11/05/2009 12:03:33 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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