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To: CynicalBear

Leaders in the “church” are supposed to be married with children having proven their leadership abilities.


Please show me where it says in Scriptures that Jesus gave instructions that leaders in the church are supposed to be married with children.


198 posted on 03/10/2015 5:24:34 PM PDT by rwa265
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To: rwa265
>>Please show me where it says in Scriptures that Jesus gave instructions that leaders in the church are supposed to be married with children.<<

1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Surely you believe the Holy Spirit inspired the writing of scripture right?

199 posted on 03/10/2015 5:34:34 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: rwa265

would you accept Paul? The Apostle to the Gentiles?
If you cant contain, then Marry.
This applies to all men.

1Cor 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman.
1Cor 7:2 Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1Cor 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1Cor 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
1Cor 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
1Cor 7:6 But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment.
1Cor 7:7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
1Cor 7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1Cor 7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.


202 posted on 03/16/2015 4:24:21 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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