Whay is the purpose of a priest? What about the High Priest?
2007-04-11 11:03:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the high preist is the one ordained and allowed to be in the presence of God .. the "go-between" person that everyone else goes through to communicate with God ..Jesus is our high preist these days ...
2007-04-11 11:07:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The purpose of a priest is different for each denomination that has them.
You'd need to be a little bit more exact as to what priest you mean in order to get a proper response.
2007-04-11 18:07:34 · answer #2 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is one main passage that deals with the priesthood of all believers. It is as follows: "You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ … But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:5-9).
Old Testament priests were chosen by God, not self-appointed; and they were chosen for a purpose: to serve God with their lives by offering up sacrifices. The priesthood served as a picture or "type" of the coming ministry of Jesus Christ...a picture that was then no longer needed once His sacrifice on the cross was completed. When the thick temple veil that covered the doorway to the Holy of Holies was torn in two by God at the time of Christ's death (Matthew 27:51), God was indicating that the Old Testament priesthood was no longer necessary. Now people could come directly to God through the great High Priest, Jesus Christ (Hebrews 4:14-16). There are now no earthly mediators between God and man as existed in the Old Testament priesthood (1 Timothy 2:5).
2007-04-12 01:39:50 · answer #3 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A priest is one who offfers up sacrifices ( as opposed to a paster )
hebrews 5:1. For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins:
2007-04-11 18:09:50 · answer #4 · answered by john m 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is mostly based on the texts of the ancient Hebrew, so there is no priest, high or otherwise, because they have rabbis. A Rabbi is a Jewish 'priest'.
2007-04-11 18:19:11 · answer #5 · answered by St. Toad 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Somebody who tells you how to life your life without showing a scrap of evidence to prove it. Also considered unquestionable and "enlightened" by a divine power.
Not surprisingly it was the priests who had the most social power in the Old Testament and who built expensive temples on the donations of the masses.
2007-04-11 18:07:01 · answer #6 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
High priests first appeared in the OT. i cant remember the name tho. i think a priest is nothing more than a servent of God who has consecrated him/herself to God. this is not limited to catholic priests.
2007-04-11 18:07:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋