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To: Just another Joe

There are no celibate priests, popes, or nuns in the New Testemant. That’s why I’m not a Catholic.

18 posted on 06/15/2009 2:48:59 PM PDT by deepseaangler (deepseaangler)

To: deepseaangler

Jesus is the High Priest and He was celibate.

He’s in your New Testament, right?

24 posted on 06/15/2009 3:16:30 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)

To: deepseaangler

“There are no celibate priests, popes, or nuns in the New Testemant. That’s why I’m not a Catholic.”

Correct. There were no celibate priests even in the OT priesthood under the Mosaic Law.

The bishop is to be the husband of one wife (1 Timothy 3); Peter had a wife, and so did other of the apostles.

I have read that Pharisees were required to be married (I have not substantially confirmed that), and Paul was a Pharisee of the Pharisees. It is possible that Paul had previously had a wife. Perhaps she passed away; perhaps she deserted the Apostle -— the Holy Spirit elected not to inform us about that. But he did say in 1 Cor. ch. 9 that he had the power to lead about a sister, a wife, as other apostles.

65 posted on 06/15/2009 4:34:45 PM PDT by John Leland 1789

To: deepseaangler; Just another Joe

There are no celibate priests, popes, or nuns in the New Testemant. That’s why I’m not a Catholic.

Jesus Christ was celibate or have you bought in to the DaVinci Code?

66 posted on 06/15/2009 4:40:01 PM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)

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