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“I love folks who “scan” through what something to see if what they want to be there is there and then just derive whatever what want from what they read. “

Good thing the word “scan” didn’t appear in my post, which must mean that you “scanned” my post as opposed to quickly reading it.

“I bet folks like that make fine priests for themselves, particularly when they can’t even understand and accept that Christ is God Almighty and works totally outside of and apart from time.”

So your response to the concept of Christ being God almighty who works totally outside of and apart from time is to claim that there is a special class of Priests in our time, which normal Christians are not a member of unless they are approved by Romanism?

The scripture makes no special distinction. We are all referred to as “lively stones” and a “holy priesthood” as a result of our being a part of Christ’s body. Are Priests a part of God’s body and we are not?

Rev 1:5-6 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, (6) And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

It does not say “will make us” or “has made us in a different dimension of time” Kings and Priests, it says “hath made us” just as surely as he hath “washed us from our sins in his own blood.”

Gal_2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Christ lives in us. The righteousness we have by GRACE through FAITH has made us worthy to be a part of His body. And is the body of Christ not Holy?

Rom 8:7-17 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. (8) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (9) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. (10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. (12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. (13) For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (15) For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (16) The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: (17) And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

We are children of God. Heirs to God that we may be Kings and Priests in His sight. We need ask of no one to mediate between us and God. We are a Holy Priesthood, and Christ is our High Priest, whom we can go to directly without any fear. We can walk into the Holy of Holies, not because of our own worthiness, but because of the worthiness of Christ who has won us to Him.

This is the same argument Peter makes in the other scripture I quoted, calling us “lively stones” (just as he is called a Rock) in the building of which Christ is the Chief Cornerstone, a “royal priesthood” unto God.

“Our sacrifice is ongoing because He is alive and interceding for us. Christ IS the sacrifice and therefore the sacrifice is ongoing, period. This moment, every moment, an everlasting sacrifice we partake of through the Eucharist. Of course, some people may believe that Christ is no longer alive, or isn’t in heaven, or isn’t constantly interceding for us, isn’t God Almighty, or even that Christ lied when He said “This is my body”. But, hey, such folks are by definition not Christian since they deny the diety of Christ.”

The scripture does not say that the Eucharist is the everlasting ongoing “final” sacrifice that we relive every Sunday in a Roman Church in order to attain salvation. It says this:

Luk_22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

Do it in remembrance of me. There is no scripture evidence that Christ is sacrificed every time a Roman Priest consecrates a wafer and some wine, or even that it is for anything more than a “remembrance” of the one and only sacrifice Christ gave on that cross.

Heb 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

FOR THIS HE DID ONCE!