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MaryCatherine08
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Is this found in scripture? I tried a search on biblegateway and couldn’t come up with anything.
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Texan77
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From catholic answers:
The Catholic Church agrees that there is a sense in which all believers are priests. In 1928 Pope Pius XI stated, “The entire Christian family . . . the prince of the apostles rightly calls ‘a chosen race, a kingdom of priests’” (Miserentissimus Redemptor, citing 1 Pt 2:9).
Vatican II declared,
Christ the Lord . . . made the new people ‘a kingdom of priests to God, his Father’ (Rev 1:6; cf. 5:9-10). The baptized, by regeneration and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, are consecrated to be a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, that through all the works of Christian men they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the perfection of him who has called them out of darkness into his marvelous light (cf. 1 Pt 2:4-10).
Although they differ essentially and not only in degree, the common priesthood of the faithful and the ministerial or hierarchical priesthood are none the less ordered to one another; each in its own proper way shares in the one priesthood of Christ. The ministerial priest, by the sacred power that he has, forms and rules the priestly people; in the person of Christ he effects the Eucharistic sacrifice and offers it to God in the name of all the people. The faithful indeed, by virtue of their royal priesthood, participate in the offering of the Eucharist. They exercise that priesthood, too, by the reception of the sacraments, prayer and thanksgiving, the witness of a holy life, abnegation, and active charity. (Lumen Gentium 10; cf. 11)
Thus the Catholic Church also teaches that all Christians are priests, although instead of calling this “the priesthood of all believers,” it refers to it as “the universal priesthood.” This is distinct from the ministerial priesthood, which is only held by some within the Christian community. The idea that there can be two parallel priesthoods, one common to all people and one composed of full-time ministers, is not foreign to the Bible.
The places where the New Testament uses the phrase “kingdom of priests” (alternate translation: “royal priesthood”) are quotations of Exodus 19:6, where God tells Israel, “You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” Yet a few verses later, God tells Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to gaze and many of them perish. And also let the priests who come near the Lord consecrate themselves, lest the Lord break out upon them” (Ex. 19:21-22).
Even though God had just said all Israel would be a kingdom of priests, there was still a special, parallel priesthood called to full-time service. This was even before the institution of the Aaronic priesthood in Exodus 28-29, so there can be a separate, ministerial priesthood even when the Levitical priests are not in view.
When Protestants argue that the fact all Christians are priests implies that there can be no ministerial priesthood, they are simply wrong. They don’t know their Bible.
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God said to the Israelites that they are a nation of priests.
Christians steal the idea from them:
Exd 19:3 And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel:
Exd 19:4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
Exd 19:5 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine,
Exd 19:6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
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MaryCatherine08
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thank you!!!
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myfavoritmartin
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Through Abraham’s covenant those who are in God’s service and enjoying the right of access to him serve as priests, we have the duty of representing God to the nations, proclaiming God’s word, interceding for people, and making provision for people to find God. pray tell how are we not priests…Don’t you understand that our God is a missionary God and those in him are called to be evangelists and missionaries? How is this not a being a nation or kingdom of priests?
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1 Peter 2 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
This refers to every Christian.
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