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The “re-prentation of the Lord’s sacrifice on Calvary in the mass” is one of the abominations the believers in Jesus Christ, alone, reject. The Scriptures are so patently clear a once-and-for-all sacrifice in His blood was sufficient that any “re-presentation” of it is a fabrication of men, a true blasphemy. Heb. 7:27, “Jesus...who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did ONCE FOR ALL when He offered up Himself.” One of us is grossly mistaken here, my FRiend.

Every believer is in a “priesthood nation” insofar as we can speak of the grace granted to anyone drawn into the family of God (IPet 2:9, “But you are a chosen race, a royal prieshood, a holy nation, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of the darkness into His marvelous light.”

There is no ceremonial priesthood. There is no absolution of sin by other men. There is no pope. There are no indulgences. There are no sacraments. There is no veneration of Saints. There is only Jesus.

AMEN, Dutchboy88. Any attempt to recreate Christ's finished work is an abomination. There is no "temple" today. "What? know ye not that YOUR BODY is the TEMPLE of the Holy Ghost which is IN YOU, which ye HAVE OF GOD, and ye are not your own?" 1 Cor. 6:19. Everything we are, we have, and we will have one day is spiritual. We are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. We can go bodly to the throne of God. There is one mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus. We are COMPLETE in Him. He resides IN US, and we reside IN HIM. THere is no "place" to go to to find God. He is either in you or not in you, but He is not in a building, waiting for you to come to Him. He resides in a temple made without hands. The body of every believer. Our inheritance is in heavenly places, not earthly.

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with ALL spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ."Eph. 1:3. "And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." Eph. 2:6.

There is not a man, an organization, a ceremonial priesthood, a pope, an indulgence, a sacrament, a Saint, or an absolution of sin by other men that would only stand in the way of our direct standing IN CHRIST.

If by bloody sacrifices, no. Which is what Hebrews is talking about.It is a polemic against the Temple, which was a virtual slaughter house. But the Eucharest is the unbloody sacrifice, the re-presentation of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, which as Hebrews also says, is like the sacrifice of Melchizedek, an offering of bread and wine. As for the chosen race, a royal priesthood, that is an appellation for the whole nation of Israel, such as they were until then rebellion against Moses, after which the Levites was set apart. Protestantism begins with a rejection of the apostolic succession and with the priesthood. It begins with a negative, and all your interpretations are colored by its effort to prove this negative. Hebrews is the most anti-judaic book in the New Testament, but in trying to interpret it we are hobbled by a common problem. We don’t know the historical context. Is it directed against the Sadducees, or more broadly against the Jewish leaders? Biblical scholarship, which has spent so much time trying to discredit the traditional views, upon which both Catholics and Protestants depended, and which they both accepted, gives us little help.