Can you please show where the new priesthood is installed? Because the way I read Hebrews (8-10), there is no priesthood on earth other than the levitical.
Be catholic
Gavin Evans
Ryder Sullivan
Not only is there a new priesthood on Earth, but even the common Orthodox Christians become a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession [of God], that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (1 Peter 2:9) We are called into this light of God (which is not a symbolic but real uncreated light according to the Orthodox Church) and the temple of our divine service is our body, which we offer to God to be used as a temple of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:19) This, too, according to the Orthodox Church is not merely a symbolic expression but has a very real meaning. For God's temple is holy and we are that temple. (1 Corinthians 3:17)
Justin Howard
hope you got the bonus questions right or else you are going to fail this test
Elijah Morales
(vade retro)
The name of the Church has always been the "Catholic Church". I'm sorry history doesn't fit with the narrative you're trying to push.
catholic.com
inb4"b-but everything that doesn't support my meme denom must be fake and a forgery!!!
Isaiah Harris
I'm sorry user but the Orthodox Church has being calling herself Catholic many centuries before some Frankish tribes mistake Christianity for witchcraft and try to tke control of the "magical power" by installing a pope and making him the "first".
It's a Greek word anyway, they probably didn't even know what it means at the time.
James Hall
Well I'm staying with the "Catholic Church".
Cooper Rogers
Wait. We have a high priest. He's in the heavens. Christ is the mediator of the better covenant. The High Priest is NOT on earth, Heb 8.
The earthly sacrifices are done, Heb 9.
And now (in the Eucharist), Christ offers himself to us, we cannot add to his perfected work.
Daniel Wood
The work of Christ is so perfect that He makes His people actually able to add to His perfect work. Paul even writes as if there is something "lacking in Christ's afflictions"": Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, that is, the Church. (Colossians 1:24)
We are the branches on the true Vine which is Christ. (John 15:1-8) We feed on this Vine (through the Eucharist) so that we can bear fruits for the Vinedresser, the Father. Every branch that does not bear fruit he takes away. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
This is Christ's commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. This is what we should do, we should lay down our own life just as He layed down His life for us. Christ carried His cross on Calvary (Golgotha) and we should carry our cross and follow after Him. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. (Mark 8:34-35) We are always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. (2 Corinthians 4:10-11)
Christ says that if we keep His commandments, we will abide in His love. (John 15:10) and He has spoken this so that our joy may be full. (John 15:11) This "full joy" is the joy in the Holy Spirit who is the guarantee of our future inheritance until we acquire possession of it. (Ephesians 1:14)
Kayden Lee
That's a good response. You are Eastern Orthodox? Have you any intro you recommended to EO ecclesiology?
Andrew Cooper
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