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syo
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the term priest could also be a spiritual guide.
My personal preference is for everyone to see to their own religious/spiritual needs...a libertarian and/or anarchic, non-hierarchical solution. Everyone be their own priest/priestess. At worst, a small group, like a family, might have/select one of their number to mostly handle such matters.
Unorganized with no priests, but with lots of therapists.
Is man made in the image of God, or not? If humankind is really in the image of God, let God be organizer and priest.
Is man made in the image of God, or not? If humankind is really in the image of God, let God be organizer and priest.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
There's a saying in law that goes "If a person serves as his own lawyer, the lawyer has a fool for a client". OK, to explain.
Even though nearly every person in the world, I believe, has it within themselves to foster their own spirituality to an extent, to do so without access to information could be just an exercise in ignorance. Once we swallow the bitter pill of our own limitations, then we can come to possibly understand that there are resources out there that can be very helpful to us, and some of those resources may be people who may know a lot more than what we personally do.
Even though nearly every person in the world, I believe, has it within themselves to foster their own spirituality to an extent, to do so without access to information could be just an exercise in ignorance. Once we swallow the bitter pill of our own limitations, then we can come to possibly understand that there are resources out there that can be very helpful to us, and some of those resources may be people who may know a lot more than what we personally do.
Yes, but priests are not for information.
Unorganized and without priests still allows for teachers.
Priest;
an ordained minister of the Catholic, Orthodox, or Anglican Church having the authority to perform certain rites and administer certain sacraments.
one authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion especially as a mediatory agent between humans and God
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
A great many ordained clergy have theology degrees, some even more than that, so they can be very informative.
I agree that priests and such as those can be teachers also.
Do you guys know something? I am absolutely and positively without any doubt at all that if I were to go to the best theological university in the whole wide world and actually graduated even with honors, you still wouldn't believe me.
idea
Question Everything
It is good to gather together, but there is no borrowed light. If your church is your god, there will be no God in your church. within any organization, separate the wheat from the tares, take what is good, but do not let the organization control or place itself between you and God. Make your allegiance to principles of goodness and kindness. Do not devote yourself to an organization, devote yourself to following principles.
I think that anyone can be a teacher. Even a baby can teach, but not on purpose which makes it all the more wonderful. Doesn't it?
Cells are organized without any extra prompting from God.
Why can't people do it? They can, but they are being taught that they can not.
Why can't people do it? They can, but they are being taught that they can not.
I will have to disagree.
Their ROLE as priests is what we are actually talking about and does not infer teaching.
A priest is an intercessor. His role is to tell us what God likes and doesn't like.