Comments on: The Priesthood, Old and New

By: JimAroo

JimAroo — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:09:48 +0000

Excellent analysis of the OT Priesthood. How clear it is that this priesthood was a “type” of the sacramental priesthood of the new covenant. By the way for 1,500 years after Christ, East or West, would have disputed this insight. Even the heretics believed in the priesthood until Luther and company.

By: plowshare

plowshare — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:46:35 +0000

Protestant ministers are really more like rabbis than like priests, either in the Old Testament or in the Catholic Church.

The old priesthood disappeared when the Temple was destroyed by the Romans. However it is still venerated among Jews: the Cohens are taken to be the direct descendants of the tribe of Levi, and Father Benedict Groeschel has said that just before a rabbi pronounces a blessing, the Cohens in the congregation leave, because blessings are supposed to be done by a Cohen if one is present. I also read once, about 15 years ago, that efforts are being made in Israel to re-establish the Jewish priesthood and the old sacrifices.

Until that succeeds, the Roman Catholic priesthood could well be the real successor, all through the Judeo-Christian tradition, of the Jewish priesthood.

By: DonHudzinski

DonHudzinski — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:55:07 +0000

This is original sin, Adam and Eve thought they could do it alone and without the presence in the garden. Both within the Catholic church, but most especially within the Protestant this original sin is most apparent.

We think we do not need God to make our chioces for us, that we can do without Him.