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David Katcher said… James wrote: The Bible never mentions a power to "seal" things on heaven or on earth. The Bible only speaks of "binding" and "loosing" things on heaven or on earth. The term "seal" in this context comes from the Mormon Scriptures.
Yes the Bible does mention SEAL:
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
Revelation 7:5 Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
James: Your reference to priesthood "keys" is also not found in the Bible but only in the Mormon Scriptures.
Yes ‘keys’ are mentioned in the Bible:
Matthew 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
James: The concept of a Melchizadek priestood is nowhere to be found in the Bible. It is a Mormon teaching that the Priesthood "after the order of Melchizadek" mentioned in Ps. 110 and Hebrews is as you describe.
Actually in English we hear "order" and we think of an "order" of monks or nuns, and so some read of a priesthood "after the order of Melchizadek" and they think it is some "Order" of Priests. In fact this is not what the Hebrew phrase indicates. The Hebrew word translated "order" is DIVRA and the word for "after" is AL (a very ambiguous preposition which most often means "about" or "concerning" but can also have many other meanings like "above" or "over" or "against" etc. . DIVRA means literally "cause" or "reason" and the phrase AL DIVRA could literally be translated "after the reason/cause of Melchizadek" that is to say "A priest for the same reason as Melchizadek." How was Melchizadek a Priest without being a Levite? Simple, he recieved the priesthood before it was limited to Levites only. Messiah was a priest forever "for the same reason" as Melchizadek, like Melchizadek, Messiah receive the priesthood BEFORE it was restricted to Levites only.
Yes the term MELCHIZEDEK is in the Bible!
11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
James, I would add that Heb. 7:21 calls this an "unchangeable" priesthood. The word here can literally be rendered to mean "non-transferable". In other words this priesthood is "unchangeable" in that it can not be transferred from one person to another. The High Priesthood could be transferred from one High Priest to another, but the "priesthood" that Messiah had "by the same reason as Melchizadek" (i.e. that he had from BEFORE the time of the Aaronic Priests) was not like the High Priesthood of Aaron in that it was non-transferable, it was Messiah's and only Messiah's forever.
MRD Hebrews 7:24 but this man, because he standeth up for ever, his priesthood doth not pass away:
Your interpretation is in error AGAIN. It’s better rendered PASS AWAY. This is because Yahushua’s priesthood was after the order of Melchizedek, and the priesthood He overroad was a ‘temporal/carnal’ priesthood, as when the second time the Torah was given, the order of Melchizedek was REMOVED from the people. After Yahushua was immersed by Yochanan, He had all that was necessary to overcome death for the nation of Israel and the world.
David Katcher said… This is for the Cost of the Covenant post
You miss my point, the idea of "sealing" things "in heaven" and "on earth" is right out of Mormon Scripture and that use never occurs in the Bible which speaks only of "binding" and "loosing" in that context. Of course the verb "seal" appears in OTHER contexts in the Bible, but no one was saying otherwise.
Matthew 16:19 says nothing about anything it calls "priesthood" the reference to "priesthood" in terms of priesthood "keys" is unique to Mormon Scripture.
I did not say that the term "Melchizadek" did not appear in the Bible, but only that the concept of a Melchizadek Priestood does not appear. Melchizadek himself held a priesthood, and Messiah held a priesthood without being a Levite "by the order of" or "by the same reason as" Melchizadek (i.e. by virtue of having held it since before the priesthood was limited to Levites).
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