Posted on 06/23/2014 6:17:59 PM PDT by Gamecock
Oh there’s gonna be people vexed with you!
1 Corinthians 7-8.
It’s a calling!
Obeying God's directive ?
Little harsh ain't'cha' skippy ?
80% Episcopagans... 11% Lutherans... Thanks. You’ve confirmed my hypothesis that precious few ever leave to draw closer to Christ: almost all those who leave are fleeing Christ into sinfulness.
I’m thinking it was not about celibacy so much, as that from the beginning he should have stayed a layman. He was not priest material. Protestant, yes, but not a priest nor a keeper of the vow.
It’s good he’s gone and happily cheered by whatever led him away and, well,— cheers him now.
There are probably more Anglican & Lutheran clergy coming over to RC or Orthodox beliefs.
Isn’t that the truth. Never Christ. But, I’m not unhappy to see the Church pruned of the unfruitful, or dead wood who are looking around for the wider, more pleasing, easy path because “we ain’t it”. :)
You celebrate a man who made a vow to God to be celibate and who broke that vow.
That’s exactly what Martin Luther did!
Both stunning examples of protestantism - break your vow to God and become a hero.
Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam
The Episcopal Church is a non-Christian cult.
So getting married is now a sin, huh? Sure is an inconsistent Church if you ask me (the RCC if that’s their official viewpoint).
Doubtful, but irrelevant.
"There are 41,500 Diocesan and Religious priests in the United States today. During the past 60 years 25,000 priests have left the priesthood in the United States and over 120,000 priests worldwide have left."
FEATURED ARTICLE
Why Did Fifty Catholic Priests Leave the Priesthood?
http://www.bereanbeacon.org/articles/on-catholicism/why-did-fifty-catholic-priests-leave-the-priesthood.html
A Catholic Priest Biblically Saved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VKiv3ZGAWo&feature=youtu.be
This book contains the moving testimonies of fifty priests who found their way, by the grace of God, out of the labyrinth of Roman Catholic theology and practice into the light of the gospel of Christ. But this is not a narrowly polemical work, nor is its relevance limited to the ongoing controversy between Rome and the churches of the Reformation. The love and concern felt by the former priests for those they left behind, and their fervent desire that they too should experience the joy and peace of salvation in Christ are seen throughout. The wider relevance of the experiences described will also be felt in many contexts remote from Roman Catholicism where human pride and presumption have erected rival sources of authority between people and the Word of God, so obscuring the way of salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, and in Christ alone.
To be fair, Martin Luther was excommunicated about 3 years before meeting his future wife because he wouldn’t recant his 95 Theses, which in part was a confrontation of the RCC selling indulgences. If he felt led away from God by the church, and it was the church that influenced his needing to make his celebacy vow, then I can understand why he would believe that God wouldn’t necessarily have wanted him to make the vow.
but how many went to become Protestant clergy. Most Catholics who left the priesthood still stay Catholic, just laicized. The ones who do go to Protestantism as clergy tend to go to the mainline-liberal ones such as Episcopalians, ECLA Lutherans, and Methodist, etc.
“The ones who do go to Protestantism as clergy tend to go to the mainline-liberal ones such as Episcopalians, ECLA Lutherans, and Methodist, etc.”
it makes sense that they go where there is a liturgical approach to worship. it would be a comfortable transition.
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