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Where in the Bible does it say that a priest shall remain unmarried?

13 posted on 05/24/2009 4:37:03 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)

19 posted on 05/24/2009 5:00:43 AM PDT by wombtotomb

Not sure...one of the requirements for a bishop is to be married.

35 posted on 05/24/2009 5:57:53 AM PDT by Bushwacker777

To: AlaskaErik; dawn53

Where in the Bible does it say that a priest shall remain unmarried?

The first answer to that is that Christ didn't found a bible, He founded a Church. The bible wasn't put together until a Catholic Church council did so around 300 years after Christ founded the Church.

The second answer is that though Holy Scripture doesn't directly demand a priest remain unmarried, in numerous places it states, unambiguously, that being single is the preferable status.

Most importantly though, in Catholic doctrine, the priest is not simply some Joe-guy who knows alot about the bible or took courses on scripture in college to give lectures on Sunday. The priest in "in persona Christi." IOW, he acts in the actual person of Christ. Christ wasn't married.

55 posted on 05/24/2009 7:09:03 AM PDT by AAABEST (And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it)

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