“In that case no need for you, “pastor.” “
I can agree with that! Everyone who is born again into Christ is a priest. The only difference between a pastor and a member-priest is that my duty is to help them do theirs.
Early, early in Catholic history the priests started taking unwarranted authority to themselves. It became about *them* and not the people. They started wearing clothes that made them stand out, etc. None of it was taught by Christ. None of it was taught by Paul.
As I said, wrong for 2000 years and counting.
WOW, it's a good thing that Luther came along 1,600 years later to set Catholics straight....just in the nick of time...WHEW!! It's a good thing that he knew more about Christian beliefs and teachings than did 16 centuries of church leaders....pathetic
The early Christians were Jews and the early clergy dressed like Jewish priests. But better yet why not include Eastern Orthodox Catholics, and the Orthodox Church. They’ve been wearing vestments for the last 2,000 years. And while you at why don’t you ask your protestant brother Anglicans and Lutherans why they wear vestments.
There’s nothing unscriptural about vestments. God commanded that they be used in the Old Testament. Look at Exodus 28:2:
For your brother Aaron you will make sacred vestments to give dignity and magnificence. You will instruct all the skilled men, whom I have endowed with skill, to make Aaron’s vestments for his consecration to my priesthood. These are the vestments which they must make: a pectoral, an ephod, a robe, an embroidered tunic, a turban, and a belt. They must make sacred vestments for your brother Aaron and his sons, for them to be priests in my service. They will use gold and violet material, red-purple and crimson, and finely woven linen.