Posted on 01/17/2020 7:55:19 AM PST by ebb tide
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1 corinthians 9:5
“Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?”
I never understood why priests had to be celibate in the first place.
A family man with wife and children could be a great priest - having children is an experience you cannot understand until you have some.
“Have we not power to carry about a WOMAN, A SISTER, as well as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?” 1 Corinthians 9:5 D-R Bible
“[5] “A woman, a sister”: Some erroneous translators have corrupted this text by rendering it, a sister, a wife: whereas, it is certain, St. Paul had no wife (chap. 7 ver. 7, 8) and that he only speaks of such devout women, as, according to the custom of the Jewish nation, waited upon the preachers of the gospel, and supplied them with necessaries.” - D-R Bible Commentary
Assuming for a moment Paul was speaking about a wife...
“...Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.” 1 Corrinthians 9:12
So, y’all really think early Christians approved of church leaders being accompanied on sometimes long journeys by women who were not their wives or whose husbands were not present?
Really?
What about ideas like not giving unbelievers material to slander the way by gossip and muckraking?
I recommend you read Benedict's/Sarah's book. Maybe then you'll understand.
Since when has the Church been a democracy? That's how we got the protestant churches.
No, the Protestant movement started because the RCC had gone off the rails.
Like the protestants marrying homos, approving abortion, female “priests”, etc.?
Thus...
“...Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.” 1 Corrinthians 9:12
People have departed from the knowledge of the Lord and been turned over to reprobate minds ... which is why I say that the sign that is being given to this generation is the sign of Romans 1:18-32.
You may note that the Lavender Mafia is very active in the RCC. Poofters are invading everywhere they are ever unwisely tolerated.
Flagrantly unconverted pew warmers took time to become a thing. And where they controlled their own property some more time after that to start basically showing actual believers the door.
But as for the beginning of Protestantism, do you really imagine they were letting poofters shack up and call it marriage? Etc? Really?
Sounds hypocritical, coming from a protestant, some of whose churches perform homosexual weddings, approve abortions, ordain openly open lesbian “priests”, “bishops”, etc.
Why don’t you try getting your own houses in order first?
It may be that, Pope Benedict XVI intentionally botched his resignation, so that he could catch people on record being unfaithful to the Church, Scripture and/or Tradition (some have hinted at this.) Then at a later date would come out and oops I am still Pope, oh and by the way all y’all are excommunicated. In other words Pope Benedict is playing 3d chess. IDK
The latin used in his resignation is so bad that it could not possibly have been written by Pope Benedict, not to mention the use of improper terminology.
Ah, I see, you have a simplistic view that somehow lumps all Protestants together.
Do you likewise hold the whole RCC responsible for the Lavender Mafia it hasn’t stamped out?
I don’t.
I doubt you do either.
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