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To: Destro
Even the most fervent Protestants,give up using that passage as an avenue to support married clergy. They recognize,after learning the many interpretations/translations of the word you translate as wife can mean woman,sister,cousin.

Time is too short,and you appear to be too smart to get into that nowhere argument.

157 posted on 10/14/2003 12:00:21 PM PDT by saradippity
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To: saradippity; RussianConservative; MarMema
Married clergy was approved by the first council of Nicea that binds the Papacy till this day. It is also a fact that the Papacy approves of married clergy in the Uniate branches- a double standard. The Orthodox have only one standard-enshrined by the ecumenical councils and that does not change with the ethnicity of the clergy or their cultural origins. That the Pope ignores the ruling of the council of Nicea for Western Clergy is a sin. That he allows it as is proper for Eastern clergy (the true Christian norm) is hypocritical.

If the Pope wants to renounce the Council of Nicea then he is no better a heretic than Luther.

159 posted on 10/14/2003 12:31:30 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorisim by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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