You didn't answer the question. Yes, the baptized are priests, prophets, and kings. There is also a special priesthood whose vocation, profession, career, life is serving the church, the assembly of believers. I am asking if it is your belief each believer (each priest if you will) should teach him/herself?
OK. I may have misinterpreted your post saying that we are all just "priests"...not exactly what he said.
1 Peter 2:9 describes believers as a "chosen people," a "royal priesthood," a "holy nation," and "God's special possession," emphasizing their unique identity and purpose to proclaim God's praises after being called out of darkness into His light. This verse highlights the spiritual significance of the church as the new Israel, reflecting God's grace and calling.
Looks like Christianity replaces Judaism as the new "chosen people".
Not at all, as God's purpose is to redeem the world and gather all to himself. He seems to have set aside particular jobs for particular peoples. As Paul put it: Many parts, but all one body....
OK. I may have misinterpreted your post saying that we are all just "priests"...not exactly what he said.
1 Peter 2:9 describes believers as a "chosen people," a "royal priesthood," a "holy nation," and "God's special possession," emphasizing their unique identity and purpose to proclaim God's praises after being called out of darkness into His light. This verse highlights the spiritual significance of the church as the new Israel, reflecting God's grace and calling.
Looks like Christianity replaces Judaism as the new "chosen people".
Not at all, as God's purpose is to redeem the world and gather all to himself. He seems to have set aside particular jobs for particular peoples. As Paul put it: Many parts, but all one body....
Not at all, as God's purpose is to redeem the world and gather all to himself. He seems to have set aside particular jobs for particular peoples. As Paul put it: Many parts, but all one body....
I rarely, if ever, use the word "saved", and never in the context of once and done. God offers us life with him, and is there to gather in all who are willing.
Throughout history, many women have been denied teaching and leadership positions based primarily on the teachings of the Apostle Paul. Some have rejected Christianity because they thought Paul viewed women as second-class citizens. That idea is based primarily on two passages — I Timothy...
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Acts 16:13-16
13: And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
14: And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
15: And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
No mention of the men, only the women.
Romans 16
1: I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
2: That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
3:Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
1 Cor. 7:3-5
The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1 Cor. 11:11-12
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God. (1 Cor. 11:11-12)
Gal. 3:26-28
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Gal. 3:26-28)
Throughout history, many women have been denied teaching and leadership positions based primarily on the teachings of the Apostle Paul. Some have rejected Christianity because they thought Paul viewed women as second-class citizens. That idea is based primarily on two passages — I Timothy...
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Acts 16:13-16
13: And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
14: And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
15: And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
No mention of the men, only the women.
Romans 16
1: I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
2: That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
3:Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
1 Cor. 7:3-5
The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1 Cor. 11:11-12
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God. (1 Cor. 11:11-12)
Gal. 3:26-28
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Gal. 3:26-28)
I’m not Catholic so I really don’t care if they marry or don’t. In the grand scheme of this world it isn’t a big issue, unless you are Catholic I guess but I don’t know too many Catholics.
They had 12 because the Catholic Church bans birth control. Using birth control allows couples to have sex for recreational purposes
The Church considers sex for fun to be sinful
They had 12 because the Catholic Church bans birth control. Using birth control allows couples to have sex for recreational purposes
The Church considers sex for fun to be sinful
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