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Originally Posted by chette777
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Do you have any scriptures from the Epistles of Paul that support this doctrinal point?
I know Paul teaches we have personal access to God for prayer through Christ. And we don't need to be a priest or called a priest or to see ourselves as priests, to study the word of God, to pray, to offer spiritual worship, or minister, we all have those privileges in Christ once we believed.
What I am asking for is scriptures where Paul calls the body of Christ a priest, priests or any individual in the body of Christ a priest? this would verify that this should be taught as a doctrine to the church.
From the way I understand it, if it agrees with the writings of Paul then it is a doctrine for the body of Christ today. if it doesn't it is not for the body of Christ as doctrine but may have applicable practice or spiritual application, in this case I believe the later.
Israel are the priests that is their promised position and after their chastisement is complete in the tribulation they will be set up in the Kingdom and then for all eternity to be the priests of God. the letters of Peter and the book of Revelation are tribulational dispensation writings for the believers after the gathering of the Body of Christ.
it is important to ask who it is written to and for what purpose it is written to them, what dispensation would it fall into, so forth and etc... for the establishment of correct doctrine for today concerning the Body of Christ.
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I do wonder though if they apply to us as well. Mainly I believe this because we are a part of the Kingdom of God, which is a spiritual Kingdom, and then we run into:
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:5 KJV)
I don't see how this doctrine conflicts with Church age doctrine. There are many things Paul didn't write about which apply to us. So, I think the burden is to shew that these don't apply to us, and this isn't done by a blanket statement such as "well that book isn't for us...". You could say the same thing about the book of Proverbs, yet who is foolish enough to ignore the profound doctrines found therein?
Peace and Love,
Stephen