Posted on 07/22/2006 7:06:59 AM PDT by NYer
A scholar of Christian Scripture in the year 6 AD?
LOLOLOLOL
Dear Petronski,
Hey, man, don't look at me. I didn't assert it.
;-)
sitetest
Yeah, I know. It's just hilarious that in the year 6 AD, someone was giving out "scholarships" for Christian scripture.
And Luke 20, 27-37 says pretty much the same thing. Protestantism began as a rebellion against monasticism and so they looked for ways to interpret the Scriptures in order to rule it out. Yet monasticism is rooted in Christian history, in the very example of the Lord himself. The prejudice against it is reflected in all anti-Catholic literature, including such nonsense as the DaVinci code.
Your 900 years of scholarship doesn't support your position because at one time priests were allowed to be married and have children.
Then a pope decided that priests shouldn't be married and should practice celibacy.
So how come it could be one way day and all changed a different day?
The reason being is all your scholarship and the Bible are interpreted by the Pope. And if he changes a church teaching then the new teaching that he introduces are church docrine.
So, lets say a pope decides that gays can be priests. So that would mean all your scholarship about gays and such would mean nothing because your new pope has introduced a new docrine that allows gays to be priests. And you'd be bound to support it by the docrine of papal infallibility.
"Please cite for me a Christian Scripture scholar from 2000 years ago who says that celibate priests are unbiblical."
How about Jesus?
And your second paragraph isn't from the Bible is it?
Dear marajade,
"How about Jesus?"
In saying that some would be eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom, Jesus endorses celibate priests.
sitetest
Your sophistries are neither interesting nor germane. You imagine a world in which a pope announces ex cathedra that gays can be priests. Why? What is your fascination with the Roman Catholic Church? You're not a member, your not even anti-abortion. Your obsession is pathological, and of interest to me only as a psychological case-study. Other than my pity and my prayers for your conversion from hate, I really can't imagine what I have to offer you.
It doesn't says they are priests. Its says they are enunuchs for the Kingdom. Which means they could be doing a lot of diff thingies for the Church without being priests.
Answer the question. Are you not bound by the Pope and his teaching?
I said 1900 years, btw, and it certainly does.
Why was it okay to be married and have children until a Pope decided it wasn't?
Do you imagine that I am under your cross examination? LOL
You're a pro-abortion anti-Catholic. Why do you think I would feel compelled to obey your orders to me?
Yes or no. Can you honestly say whether or not you would have to obey it or not?
Do you imagine I feel compelled to obey your orders?
I don't care if you obey or not. If the Pope hands down a new teaching, aren't you required to follow this as a Catholic in good standing?
That's not yet clear.
Yes or no. Do you follow any new teaching that the pope says is docrine?
There never has been, nor will ever be, a "new teaching" of the Catholic Church.
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