Posted on 07/05/2015 4:18:19 PM PDT by NYer
OK. You don’t know much about the development languages, do you? Be happy in your ignorance (but you seem to be!).
maryz, you quickly turned to an ad hominem logical fallacy, instead of making a cogent argument.
I understand your dilemma. I read Greek and it is not there.
What other English words do you find in Greek Dictionaries -- or in Greek? Do you find "kingdom," say, or "bishop"?
maryz,
NT church offices are listed in Greek, along with the office duties/functions. Priest nor priestly function appears in Greek.
The current role of “priest” as appearing in Catholic churches was made up as paganism crept into the church.
priest (n.) Old English preost probably shortened from the older Germanic form represented by Old Saxon and Old High German prestar, Old Frisian prestere, all from Vulgar Latin *prester "priest," from Late Latin presbyter ("presbyter, elder") from Greek presbyteros (see Presbyterian).
You Need an etymoligical dictionary!
And Protestants on FR (with several honorable exceptions) seem to know as little about actual paganism (or paganisms) as they do about Catholicism.
Again, backwards. All you are doing is demonstrating how a word came to exist in English.
The issue isn’t how we got the English word priest.
The issue is that it isn’t a NT office of the church.
God inspired the Greek words. What you call a priest isn’t a Christian concept in those inspired words.
Catholicism is a syncretism of parts of Christianity and paganism. Heck, there were pagan popes - another non-church office later added.
Get back to me when you’ve learned something about languages — or anything else!
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
Ah yes, back to ad hominem attacks.
You could demonstrate from the Greek NT where the office of “priest” is cited. Short of that, you fall short.
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