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To: NYer

1 Timothy 4
Instructions to Timothy
1The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.


17 posted on 04/15/2010 6:03:25 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: thethirddegree
Sex Abuse of Children by Protestant Clergy.
20 posted on 04/15/2010 6:17:07 AM PDT by NYer ("Where Peter is, there is the Church." - St. Ambrose of Milan)
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To: thethirddegree
Quoting Scripture out of context is the crutch of the ignorant.

Better read all of what Saint Paul wrote.

"But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife, is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God. But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world, how she may please her husband. And this I speak for your profit: not to cast a snare upon you; but for that which is decent, and which may give you power to attend upon the Lord, without impediment." 1 Corinthians 7:32-35

"Forbidding to marry. to abstain from meats. He speaks of the Gnostics, the Marcionites, the Encratites, the Manicheans, and other ancient heretics, who absolutely condemned marriage and the use of all kind of meat; because they pretended that all flesh was from an evil principle. Whereas the Church of God, so far from condemning marriage, holds it a holy sacrament and forbids it to none but such as by vow who have chosen the better part: and prohibits not the use of any meats whatsoever in proper times and seasons, though she does not judge all kind of diet proper for days of fasting and penance." St. Jeromes' commentary on 1 Timothy 4:3 (emphasis added for your much needed edification)

Additional passages from Scripture that torpedo your thinly veiled lame attempt to condemn celibacy.

"Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it." Matthew 19:11-12

"Then Peter answering, said to him: Behold we have left all things, and have followed thee: what therefore shall we have? And Jesus said to them: Amen, I say to you, that you, who have followed Me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the seat of His majesty, you also shall sit on twelve seats judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for My name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting. And many that are first, shall be last: and the last shall be first." Matthew 19:27-30

"Then Peter said: Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee. Who said to them: Amen, I say to you, there is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive much more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting." Luke 18:28-30

21 posted on 04/15/2010 6:30:42 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: thethirddegree
To the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever been forced to take a vow of celibacy. Of course my knowledge of human behavior is not universal. So if you know of somebody --- even one person --- who has been compelled to make a vow of celibacy against his will, would you please supply a name and a link?
24 posted on 04/15/2010 6:56:02 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Point of information.)
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