I have a question

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In a message dated 3/20/99 3:20:10 PM Pacific Standard Time,
SHERBERTF@prodigy.net writes:

>  I have to admit that sounds
>  like God to me.  

 
Heb 7:4
4	Now consider how great this *man* was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham
gave the tenth of the spoils.
(KJV)

 If you read Hebrews, the writer was trying to explain how Jesus could be our
High Priest without being from Levi.  If Melchisedec was God, then it could
have been simply stated that Jesus can be our High Priest because he is God
and he wants to be.  But the Writer was establishing "how great this *man*
was" (Melchisedec) to explain there was a precedent for a priesthood of merit
already established. 
 It is my personal opinion that the doctrine of Melchisedec as God was
established by the Trinitarians in an effort to find a preexisting Son in the
OT. 

 Mike Reed