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Re: New Order of Beings [message #10569 is a reply to message #10568] Sun, 08 December 2013 02:45 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Hi Marilyn,

Marilyn Crow wrote on Sat, 07 December 2013 16:27


If our priesthood is 'metaphorical,' not literal, then wouldn`t God have written, 'You are AS a royal Priesthood?'



Not necessarily... one might walk into a wild meeting where some were barking and some were making chicken noises and make the statement -- "this place is a zoo!". No one would think that it was necessary to correct the obvious implication and meaning by saying --"no brother, don't you mean that this place is LIKE a zoo!"

The literal priesthood of Israel with all of its trappings had come to an end with the renting of the veil of the temple. All believers had the same access to God as the literal priests in the OT. There was no temple. There was no more sacrifice. There was no more need for a mediator between God and man. Likewise, when Peter says you are an holy nation, there would be no need for him to explain that he didn't mean a "nation" in the political sense, just as there would be no reason for him to stop and explain his meaning was not to be taken as a literal nation.

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Marilyn said: Yet we do minister to people & worship God as you said, so wouldn't it be true to say we are a spiritual priesthood.



Wasn't that what I said? William said: All believers are called to serve God and serve others as spiritual priests.


I could have just as easily said, and I think that most would automatically assume that I meant --"...that metaphorically speaking we are spiritual priests." We are not priests in the literal sense of the word.

The word "priesthood" used in the passage (1Pet 2:9) is obviously (at least to me) meant to be a description of something using an implied comparison, not a literal comparison, which makes it by definition metaphorical.


Blessings,
William

[Updated on: Mon, 09 December 2013 15:49]


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