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You and I see that these verses are pointing to a real thing that is going on inside our hearts. And we revel over the fact that the God of the universe, our creator and redeemer, lives in our hearts. But to many, these things are not real, but just words on a page to be parsed. We need to help...

No, but any believer can baptize other believers. No, but a non-believer can marry people if they are licensed. Absolutely! Why not? No, I think that one is closed. Your boys aren't doing that either, are they? I don't know what purpose that would serve. God is the only one who can forgive...

There are many things wrong with this post. I'll just pick five things to refute. First, Christianity is bigger than the ritualistic catholic sect. Everyone knows you all think that almost everyone outside your church is lost. But you must know that many people outside catholicism think the...

Those are some very odd statements. It is almost as if you do not realize that Jesus resides in your heart. You do know He's in there, right? Here are some verses to heighten your awareness. If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make...

Yes, of course. All saints (i.e., all true Christians) are in the royal priesthood. In that sense there are NT priests.

Have you never read John 6:45? It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me. (Jn 6:45) Do you not know that under the new covenant we don't need human intermediaries? No more shall every man...

We do have a direct line to God. What in the world are you saying? We need to go to other people to get to God? That thought is anathema.

Sorry, I should have explained instead of just blasting out Scriptures. There are no Bible verses that say that the NT church has priests. I posted all the verses containing the Greek word for "priest" to show that. Walpole pointed to several verses that have the greek word for "elder", which...

1 Tim 5:19Do not receive an accusation against an elder except from two or three witnesses. Titus 1:5For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you— Heb 11:2For by it the elders obtained a good...

Acts 15:23They wrote this letter by them: The apostles, the elders, and the brethren, To the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings. Acts 16:4And as they went through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees to keep, which were determined by the apostles...

Acts 2:17‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. Acts 4:5And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders...

Matt 27:41Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and elders, said, Matt 28:12When they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, Mark 7:3For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a...

Heb 5:6As He also says in another place: “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek”; Heb 7:1For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, Heb 7:3without father, without mother...

The Greek word for "priest" is "ἱερεύς", not "πρεσβύτερος" (which is the Greek word for "elder"). Here are all the verses in the NT with the Greek word for "priest" Matt 8:4And Jesus said to him, “See that you tell no one; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that...

I thought when you posted the following comment you were saying we did not all have equal access to God, but needed to go to God through others... we have formed very different worldviews, and through the lenses of which we only see what we wanna see in the Bible - to you, “all priests with...

Where in your Bible does it say we have priests? I would be surprised if you can point to even one verse. But if you can find one, please identify the verses that say that our access to God is through a priest. There's no way that POV is Biblical, otherwise the following Scripture would be...

At least we have substantial agreement on this point. No, it is not a metaphor. Yes it is literal. The adoption angle concerns God making His enemies His children with full rights. It doesn't supplant our spiritual birth that makes us literally His children. Our new nature was "created...

This could be seen as a reference to us being a "temple" except for the phrase "that they also may be in us" in John 17:21 that you quote above. This is one of many Scriptures that say we are "in Him" just as He is "in us", and they speak to us being intertwined together as an inseperable unit...

I agree with everything you are saying here. I would think it is obvious that if you're in an apostate church, you would choose to leave the church instead of staying in it and bucking its leadership. If that's not possible for some reason, resisting their false doctrine in an effective way...

When you're a member of a particular church, you need to submit to the leader(s) of the church. If you can't do that, you need to leave. After you leave, you are under no obligation to do what they say. It's just that simple.