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Hebrews 5:1-6 explains why Jesus, who was not of a priestly caste, became endowed with the status of High Priest and serves humanity in this critical function. These readings explicate the underlying meanings of scripture as it pertains to Jesus’s qualifications, qualities, roles, and duties as High Priest. Modeled after Aaron, the High Priest must have three core qualities. First, a High Priest must be singled out, special, and unique. Second, the High Priest cannot be self-appointed or even appointed by human beings. Only God can appoint the High Priest. In other words, the High Priest is called by God to serve. Third, the High Priest must have a set of qualities that include empathy for those who are weak and sinful, humility, and patience.
The primary role served by the High Priest is that of intermediary between God and humanity. Pilch (n.d.) offers the best metaphor of the intermediary role, in that the petitioner will need a patron or a broker to conduct complicated affairs or to restore order or harmony. The High Priest reconciles the human being who has sinned with God, who is offended by that sin. With humility, empathy, patience, and kindness, the High Priest helps...
Far from the old model in which High Priests could only come from specific families, Jesus returned to the world the genuine model of the High Priest who serves humanity as intermediary. As the anointed one, the Christ, Jesus is royal, priestly, and divinely ordained. Jesus was also humble enough to surrender his divine privileges and assume the burden of sin in order to cultivate the solidarity with others needed to become truly empathetic and humble (Matera, n.d.). Even if Jesus was a layman, he fulfilled the primary requirements of High Priesthood.
Christians today can learn from Jesus’s radical new model of High Priesthood. For one, Jesus taught that birthright is not an effective means by which to determine fitness for spiritual leadership. Being called by God is really the only way to prove oneself able to fulfill the duties of the High Priest. Second, Christians can look to Jesus as the ultimate role model of priestly comportment. Humility, patience, and empathy are the qualities of a good leader in any…
Jesus' Teachings, Prayer, & Christian Life "He (Jesus) Took the Bread. Giving Thanks Broke it. And gave it to his Disciples, saying, 'This is my Body, which is given to you.'" At Elevation time, during Catholic Mass, the priest establishes a mandate for Christian Living. Historically, at the Last Supper, Christ used bread and wine as a supreme metaphor for the rest of our lives. Jesus was in turmoil. He was
Unless the author's typological approach is appreciated, the interpreter may wrongly assume that the author is making literal statements about the salvation-historical significance of Christ. The fact that Hebrews was originally written in Greek does not provide any substantial or definitive help in the search for author or audience. During the time period in which Hebrews had to be composed, Christians in Rome spoke Greece. In fact, Hellenism had much
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This also means that it is the Sovereign God and not just Lady Luck that is the Lord of Israel. Since God is sovereign by nature, it means that His sovereignty even extends to the allocation of Gods to tribals and to pagans, and this also means that God did not simply hand over His very representation of Himself as the Father and as the Son and as the Spirit
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The universe viewed through a telescope looked different, and this difference in itself played into the Protestant argument that received truths may be fallible. In fact, the notion of truth outside empirical evidence became unsteady: For most thinkers in the decades following Galileo's observations with the telescope, the concern was not so much for the need of a new system of physics as it was for a new system of