>Though it is only a church law, celibacy shows contempt for Scripture
Now this is just plain biblical ignorance.
>Though it is only a church law, celibacy shows contempt for Scripture
>>Now this is just plain biblical ignorance.<<
Not very convincing.
Please justify requiring all bishops/elders to have the gift of celibacy when, if anything, the Bible expects (and may even require) them to be married.
(1 Cor 7:7) “For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.”
A bishop then must be...”One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; {5} (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)” (1 Tim 3:2a,4-5)
“If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.” (Titus 1:6)
Whether these specific instructions mandate marriage is debatable, but whether celibacy can be mandated for this entire class of clergy is not, but such is the result of autocratic presumption to authority over Scripture, an error which the Pharisees were also guilty of.