Because Hebrews 5:1 says that every high priest is taken out of man. Melchizedek was a man just as Jesus was a man.
Hi brother
Thanks for the reply. I see that a little differently. My two cents..(sorry for the length) .
God does not have a name like you or I needed to distinguish one form another. Eternal God has no form. He was without father and mother in the same way Jesus was without father and mother.
Using words like Jesus which simply means Savor to denote “form” will not work out at least for my own self in my personal study principles I use. . .Using terms like the Son of God to denote
no form, or the Son of man which does
denote form.It seems to work the best for trying to reconcile the differences.
I think it is needed to make sure we do not offend God who has no form . A proper distinction between the "things of God" and "those of men" is required . It’s there where Satan who has no form gets his foot in the door to tried to prevent Christ from finishing what he had started who alone has the keys to unlock the gates of hell. This is shown with Jesus saving Peter. Snatching Peter from the fires of hell over and over every-time he denied Christ. Christ reinstated Peter one of the elect according to his grace.
Then
Peter took him, and began to rebuke
him, saying, Be it far from thee,
Lord: this
shall not be unto
thee.But
he turned, and said unto
Peter, Get thee behind me,
Satan: thou art an "offence unto me": for thou savourest
not the "things that be of God", but "those that be of men". Mat 16:22
I think if you would follow it to its conclusion to get the fuller context of what you offered (Hebrews 5:1) says ; every high priest taken
among men , is ordained
for men in “things
pertaining to God”, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
And not for God, pertaining to men .God has no needs. In that way he shows us he is not served by human hands.
Eternal God who is not a man abides as
the high priest of our calling. He who remains without form as a beginning.
In the beginning when he found sin in men who already had some sort of form, and His angel creation (Satan) that has no form . He subjected the whole creation to corruption.The beginning of the aging process, decaying and leading to an end..
He just did not leave those who he intended to have mercy on behind. So although His Kingdom is not of this world (never will be). He set up a temporal a kingdom on earth to represent Him not seen in heaven. From that perspective ; every high priest taken among men , is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, not seen , that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
Heb 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest
continually.
The Son of God who has no form, described by Melchizedek who came and went as a vision (theophany) has no mother or father beginning of days or end of life he abides a priest eternally
continuously (without beginning or a end) .
Therefore our eternal High Priest ( Christ) who has no form. He of his own volition temporally put on the flesh typified as sinful as the Son of man to demonstrate the invisible work of God having mercy and grace on those who names will be found in the lambs book of life..... as
if God had been slain, who is also not a lamb, just as he is not a man .
Therefore using two forms of creation to represent that one work which has been finished from the foundation of the world, as the eternal rest we enter in to by faith (that not seen).
The promised
demonstration of that “unseen work” of God pouring out his Spirit that was
finished from the foundation of the world. It is in respect to Christ, the anointing Holy Spirit of God..... again pouring out his Spirit (not seen) on all flesh as the Father of all spirits. As new creatures in Christ, of Christ and through Christ, we walk by faith not after the temporal flesh, as the Son of man.. But rather in respect to the eternal Spirit, as of Son of God, not seen, the High priest of our calling as a kingdom of priest .
In order to emphasize we walk by faith and not by sight to help differentiate between
the unseen things of God (the eternal) from the things of men as
that seen .(the temporal) he uses the phrase; “I will pour out my
spirit upon all flesh”. twice
And it shall come to pass afterward, that
I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days
will I pour out my spirit. Joel 2:28
God will not except worship in respect to the outward demonstration. He has no form. He is not a man or a Lamb.
Isiah 53 I believe helps to show us that more clearly.
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Isa 53:1
Eternal Spirit does not have a literal fleshly arm.
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground:
he hath no form nor comeliness;
and when we shall see him, there is no beauty
that we should desire him. Isa 53:2
We walk by faith not by sight .It cannot be over emphasized ,I believe.
I think in that statement we can see Christ, as the Son of God (no form) taking on the form, as the Son of man and in that as we are informed there is nothing about it by which we should desire to worship him as God because of it.
This is even though some like the Catholics, a extreme example, say his flesh is the “REAL PRESENCE ” of God even though Christ as the Son of man clearly said His flesh as that seen does not profit as a spiritual work the unseen ..They have many doctrines based on what they call the "REAL PRESENCE" as if God was a man as us.
Again as the Son of man, that seen, Christ resisted all forms of worship.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and
the LORD “hath laid” on him the iniquity of us all. Isa 53:3-
The
“hath laid” is not "will lay again"... in the above passage is in respect to the foundation of the world.
Salivation, I believe, at least today unless something changes where I stand is not figured from the temporal demonstration of that finished unseen work thousands of years later. God still resists worship in respect to form. He is still not a fleshly man as us........The cause of the fall during the foundation of the world to begin with.