Cheryl Schatz

Okay, one more before I attend to my sweetheart who is waiting for me.

in the video the claim rests that the Levitical priesthood was the firstfruits of the true priesthood and israel failed in producing the proper priesthood, but now you say it was meant to happen this way and you agree with me that women were never meant to be literally slaughtering the animals.

Mark, my friend, you have misunderstood the video clips. What I said was that the Levitical priesthood was the “foundation” that was set up with only men and only one tribe. But Israel was promised that they would all be given the ability to be in God’s special priesthood as all of them would be “ministers of God”. I never said that Israel failed in “producing the proper priesthood”. Not at all. What I said was that they failed to be faithful to God. They did not obey Him nor did they fear Him. They went out to other “lovers” and God said that He would “love them no more” as that special possession of His very own. In fact God divorced Israel and Israel never did what God said she should do to be that special priesthood.

So is it literal or metaphoric? You seem to be changing your opinion all the time.

Honestly I find you very cute. The only reason that you think that I am changing my mind is because you did not understand my position.

The thing that I try very hard to do, and I am not perfect but I really do try, is to understand the opposing position and then present my own. When I did the research for my WIM DVDs, I went to CBMW and to John MacArthur’s org (his right hand man was the one who answered my emails) and to others. I always looked to and respected the complementarians by giving them my work to critique. If I misunderstood then I wanted to be corrected. I didn’t ask them to agree with me, just to help me understand their view and not to misrepresent it. Since I took their own words and their own writings, I kept very careful to show them the honor that they deserve as fellow Christians. At the same time I very strongly disagreed with them and carefully explained from the Scriptures where they were wrong. No one is able to correct me in my own exegesis unless they do it from the Scriptures which is my own straight edge that I highly trust.

If the whole nation was to be a kingdom of priests and the priests literal role was to slaughter animals why are you no back tracking and saying women were never meant to be in that role?

I never said that they were to be in that “role”. God defines His own terms and He said that the nation would be “ministers to Him” and to the nations. This is the highest place that they could be in and it would come if they were faithful. God Himself called this work as the “priesthood”. I want to be faithful to His Word and agree with Him. That is my position and I have not changed. Perhaps you have changed a little by coming alongside me in understanding. That is a godly thing to do.

Okay, I am off now to fellowship with my husband. Go ahead and continue to dialog and ask questions of whatever. Mark, I can hardly wait until you get through all the clips. You will still be my brother whether you agree with me or not, but I look forward to us being a little bit closer to the center and a little bit closer to understanding one another when you are done.

Thanks again!