Can a true Christian acknowledge more than one High Priest?
In the book of HEBREWS, a group of Jewish Christians are admonished to stay strong in the Christian faith and not to return to their obsolete Jewish beliefs. The author’s main argument against abandoning Christianity is that the Christian High Priest, Jesus Christ, is superior to the Jewish High Priest, who is only a weak and imperfect mortal who performs a weak and imperfect sacrifice for sin. Jesus, on the other hand, is the perfect High Priest who can save completely. (HEB. 7:25) The writer of HEBREWS, therefore, offers only one High Priest to which a Christian can turn: Jesus Christ! At no time does HEBREWS speak of a “third kind” of High Priesthood held by men in the Christian church as is represented by the RLDS/COC church. Since the Bible clearly reveals Jesus Christ as our perfect High Priest, where exactly does any mortal man have the authority to lay claim to that position? Bottom line: They are taking Christ’s honor for themselves.
