[biblewonk]

Priest means presbyter. This is what the word means. When you demean the word priest, you demean the word presbyter. When you ask where is the Christian priesthood in the Bible, you are asking where the Christian presbyterate in the Bible is, because priest and presbyter are the same word.

The bible never uses the word priest in a NT church context, it uses pastor and elder and bishop. There is no alter and there is no sacrifice ever discussed in a NT church context either. By the way I don't demean the word priest, it is a great word and a great concept in it's proper place.

[BlackElk]

At the risk of nagging, "alter" means to change. "Altar" is where Mass is said. If you spell the word correctly, you will not distract people with misspelling from noticing more substantive errors.

Also, since the Bible certainly was not written in English, neither priest nor presbyter nor bishop nor elder as English words were used but a Hebrew or Greek word in all likelihood or perhaps Aramaic.

Finally, for now, the Bible is silent on the question of what the weather was like in Jerusalem on the twentieth anniversary of the crucifixion. Hard though it may be for you to believe, it is very probable, nonetheless, that there WAS weather, describable in human words on that anniversary.

[Mark in the Old South]

You forget you are reading a translation or do you read ancient Greek and Hebrew? It is not outside to possibility some folks do. I just somehow don't figure you are one.