Post #6 of my critique of the Adventist Women's Ordination video

Post #6 of my critique of the Women's Ordination video listed below: POINT #3a – Only men are ever recorded in the bible as officiating through the offering of sacrifices or called to priestly ministry.

There at least one HUGE problem with using these facts to say that women cannot be ordained.  One massive detail that was left out of this video, THERE IS NO LONGER AN EARTHLY PRIESTHOOD.  And if there was, most or all of the males in our church, like all the women, would be left out.  To be a biblically appointed priest you had to be a descendant of Aaron, not even a Levite would do.  The author of Hebrews goes to great length to point out that Jesus is a priest in the line of Melchizedek.  This priesthood is higher than the one of Aaron, but even still the author points out that Jesus would not be a priest here on this earth, because he is not of the line of Aaron. Hebrews 7-8. If Jesus cannot be a priest on earth because he is not of the line of Aaron, I don’t think there are that many pastors out there who would fit the bill.  From this I will draw a natural conclusion.  Since Pastors are not priests, we really cannot use the fact that only men were priests to say women cannot be pastors or ordained as such, since the two jobs are not equivalent.  Now as to officiating through offering of sacrifices, as far as I can tell before the priesthood there is not a recorded example of a women offering a sacrifice.  However after the priesthood was instituted we find no prohibition against a women bringing a sacrifice to the temple.  As far as I can tell, she did not need her husband to take it for her and if I missed something please let me know.  Before God and the priesthood a husband and wife seemed to be on equal footing.  One specific place in the Torah where this is apparent is when directions are given for both a man and a woman to take a Nazarite Vow.  Numbers 6:1-21. This vow seems to temporarily make a common person more holy than normal.  Giving the person taking the vow the closest taste of holiness and being near to God that a non-priest could attain to.  This vow set them apart from the other masses for a certain amount of time.  The directions are the same for both a man and a woman. At the end of the vow, a Nazarite, be they man or woman, had to bring sacrifices to the temple. As far as I can tell by reading Torah and from all the other sources I have read, the person bringing the sacrifice, not the priest, was the one who had to kill the animal. Thus when a women made a Nazarite vow she would have had to kill the animal just like a man. Also I would think that when a woman sinned, she too would have to bring an animal, lay her hands on it, transferring her guilt, and cut the animal’s throat.  My conclusion?  Men and women were both participants in the offering of sacrifices and although women were not allowed to be priests, most men were not allowed to be either.  So even if we used priests in our liturgies, neither men nor women in our church could participate, because they are not of the line of Aaron, unless you are a man and have the last name of Cohen, then you might have a chance. ;-).