Thank you for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!
me: I personally do not accept ... mortals being priests on the order of Melchizedek. you: They are through Christ and by the Grace of Christ, Who sent them like Himself.
I suspect there is a similar rationale in the LDS theology concerning their Melchizedek priesthood. However, I continue to disagree for the reasons given in post 4827. You continued:
Otherwise this verse has no meaning:
As the Father hath sent me, I also send you (John 20:21)
The following passage comes to my spirit in reference to Jesus sending us as the Father sent Him:
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. - John 12:49-50
And these passages from John 17, when Christ is praying for us just before the Crucifixion:
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. - John 17:4 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received [them], and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. - John 17:6-8
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. - John 17:16-18
In sum, we are to declare His Name, glorify Him, repeat the words HE gives us.
So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. - Romans 10:17 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: - John 10:27
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. – Matt 4:4
Give us this day our daily bread. – Matt 6:11
I am that bread of life. – John 6:48
God's Name is I AM.