Questions tagged [priesthood]

Priesthood is the state of consecrated life of a priest. Questions regarding the office and/or the sacrament of Priesthood.

A priest is a person called to the immediate service of the Deity and authorized to hold public worship, especially to offer sacrifice.

Use this tag for the office of priest in the Old Testament, for the priesthood of Jesus, for the office of priest in the Church or for the doctrine of the Preisthood of all Believers.

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Kingdom of Priests

God has always desired close fellowship and practice being a priest spiritually. (Rom 15:16) and God's desire always for us to be in constant fellowship (Gen 3:9) and the Holy Priesthood throughout Hebrews is fulfilled in Jesus our High Priest (Exo…
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With the priesthood of all believers do we need priest or pastor as church leaders?

The Old Testament talks about Levites as priest and the New Testament talks of priesthood of all believers. But then there is the gift to some as pastors, teachers and evangelists (Eph 4:11) in the New Testament. If all are priest, one can not be…
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Seeing as there is only one mediator between God and man, what’s the role of the prophets?

Being “in the image of” seems to be related to the biblical idea of human authority on the earth, but it seems to indicate far more than just decision making authority. It goes toward the idea that we should have a resemblance of Hod and people that…