Women Preists - and interesting thought, please help.

Markie, here's the problem. The Biblical phrase, priesthood of all believers doesn't refer to ordinations. It doesn't refer literally to the priest, pastor, minister, clergy, etc.

In the Old Testament, the priests were selected from one particular Jewish tribe, but with the Church of Christ, the principle is that all of us have a role to play in the life of the church. But that doesn't mean all of us are to be pastors, etc. or even eligible. The New Testament is clear about that misunderstanding.

The way that most churches apply the principle (priesthood of all believers) is by giving the membership, the congregation, a meaningful role in deciding the leadership and policies of the church by, for example, voting on whom to call as pastor or having the day to day administration of the congregation be put in the hands of a committee of people drawn from the membership.

While Israel retained the idea of a 'priesthood of all believers', they did not do away with the sacerdotal priesthood (i.e., the priests who would actually do the sacrifices in the temple), which was all male.

(Not an exact quote from it, as I've slightly modified it to fit the thread topic, but you can find discussion of this idea of a priesthood of all believers vs. a sacerdotal priesthood in one of the episodes of Fr. Andrew S. Damick's podcast series "Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy" on AFR, though I can't recall off-hand which exact episode he addresses this in. But there's your EO reference, since I myself am not EO. He is Antiochian Orthodox, if I recall correctly.)

yes, women are included in the priesthood of all believers since women, like men, present themselves before Christ when they receive holy communion.

yes, but what actually makes our lives a sacrifice to and for God is holy communion, which both men and women partake of equally.

We all have a ministry of some sort if we belong to Jesus Christ. Men and women. But the ordained were called to their specific service, if not called it won't be effective, it also may not last...

Markie Boy said:

At the risk of showing my simpleton brain - why does holy communion make our lives a sacrifice?

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I know what scripture says, I'll be curious to hear replies to your question.

Markie Boy said:

At the risk of showing my simpleton brain - why does holy communion make our lives a sacrifice?

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because you become one flesh with Christ, Whose Flesh truly was sacrificed.

This, for me, put an end once and for all to the whole question for any “Christian” denomination:
Irini Pasi - Pax Vobiscum - As-salamu alaykum - 平安与你同在: Priestesses in the Church by C.S. Lewis