Your argument is that that ONE passage in 1 Peter means that all those OTHER passages of the New Testament don’t exist.
That’s interesting.
Oh, please don’t try to put words in my mouth, Arthur.
That’s neither what I said, nor anything close to being operative concerning how I believe. OTOH, I would ask you, “How many times does the Bible have to say something before it’s true?”
I brought the 1 Peter 2 section forward because it seemed conspicuously missing from the verses to which one would go as part of a NT word study on ‘priest’.
Really, I’m beginning to understand that jumping all over one’s perceived adversaries is a trait some conservatives share with liberals. And that ain’t good.
HF