[TradicalRC]

For it would be presumptious and proud to assert that those who, simnply because they have given up sex, are less sinful then the rest of us and more fit to serve as priests.

Okay, but then why DOES Paul say this?

38 Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage doth well: and he that giveth her not doth better. -1 Corinthians 7

[kosta50]

+Paul says

"But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment." (1 Cor 7:6)

"Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment." (1 Cor 7:25)

"A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife." (1 Tim 3:2)

"Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well." (1 Tim 3:12)