Why were there no priests in the early Christian church?
You have to remember to start with that the first Christians were mainly of Jewish descent. In order to be a priest you had to be a descendant of the tribe of Levi. To be a High Priest you had to be a descendant of Levi’s son Aaron. First century Christians were a mix of Jew and Gentile peoples so the office of priest was not an appropriate one for them. The Old Testament function of a priest was to represent the individual and perform ceremonial acts. Jesus became our High Priest after the order of Melchizedek. This order did not have a priestly office so the office was never created in the early Christian Church. Another reason is to be found in the writing of the Apostle Paul to the Galatian and the Colossian Churches when he pointed out that we all have an equal opportunity as Baptised Christians, it does not matter about Nationality or Social status, as Paul buts it “ye are all one” – Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither m
