Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: ducdriver
The Church preceded the Book.

Um... the Church preceded Moses and the Prophets?

Truth is, there were centuries of ground work laid before the Church was founded at Pentecost, otherwise the teachings of Jesus would have been largely indiscernible to his hearers. He often referenced Scripture and Characters well-known and highly esteemed by those who heard Him - pulling together the teachings of Moses and the Prophets into a coherent, unified doctrine.

409 posted on 01/25/2007 5:26:55 PM PST by fwdude (LEFT LANE ENDS . . . MERGE RIGHT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies ]


To: fwdude

Deeply mystic Catholics would tell you that the Church is but the Temple, with the sacrifices of the Old Covenant replaced by The Sacrifice of the New Covenant, and with the kohanite priesthood replaced, by God Himself, by the priests of the apostolic succession.

So, when you read of the Temple of David and of Solomon, and the refounding of the Temple, that is the Catholic Church you are reading of. Those were the priests of the Church. The Church IS the Temple. Once Jesus died and was resurrected, the OLD blood rites ceased to have any meaning or effect, and God destroyed the physical building of the Temple and scattered the old priesthood. But there has only been one Temple of God since Moses' tabernacle. It was in the desert with Moses and in the tent with David. It was in the stone edifice of Solomon, scattered in the Babylonian Exile, and rededicated with Ezra. The kohanite priesthood was replaced by the priests of the Apostolic Succession, by Jesus, and the blood rites of the old sacrifice were replaced by the new blood rite of the human sacrifice, of Jesus, in the covenant sealed by him, in the species of water, wine and bread.

But it's all just one Temple. The seat of the Temple went from the desert to Jerusalem, then was shattered and spread to all the Earth as the Kingdom of God. The center of GOVERNANCE of the Temple, where the High Priest (the Pope) and the Sanhedrin (the Curia) sit is Rome, but whereas the Jerusalem Temple was the only appropriate place for the blood sacrifice, in the Kingdom of God instituted by Jesus under the New Covenant, the altars of sacrifice are whereever in the world two or more are gathered in his name and invoke the Holy Spirit, and have the Priests of the Apostolic Succession - the neo-Aaronite and Levite priesthood - to perform the sacrifice.

This is why the Judaism of the Temple was so very different from the Judaism of the synagogue since the destruction of the Temple. When the old Temple was up, the religion was not about texts, it's core was the blood sacrifices of the priesthood. That is still true. The blood sacrifice of Jesus, in the body and the blood of the Mass, and the other sacraments, are THE direct access to God. This is through the consecrated priesthood, as it has been since Moses, Aaron and the tabernacle. It remains so. The center of Templar Judaism was not the Torah, it was the sacrifices of the altar. The sacrifices never ended. That is what happens, still, at the Mass, in unbroken succession back to Aaron's sacrifice, renewed by Jesus'.

What happened in the synagogue is what happens in the Protestant Churches. The deep study of the Word on its own.
What has been lost is the tie between synagogue and Temple.
Protestants think the Temple is destroyed and there is only the synagogue. But they are wrong. The Temple remains and the sacrifices continue, every day, many times of day, in blood and body, as they have since the time of Aaron and Moses.

That's what a Catholic mystic would say.
Everyone else would be free to ignore him, of course.


412 posted on 01/25/2007 5:44:24 PM PST by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 409 | View Replies ]

To: fwdude

I think they meant the ENTIRE Bible.


439 posted on 01/25/2007 7:48:22 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 409 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson