Celibacy of the Catholic priesthood is an administrative policy, it is not based in Scripture nor does it have to be. Democracy and air travel are not in Scripture either.
"and DIVORCE is NOT the unforgivable sin."
Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery"
- Mark 10:11-12
he did not say it was not a sin, he said it was not THE unforgivable sin
Celibacy of the Catholic priesthood is an administrative policy, it is not based in Scripture nor does it have to be. Democracy and air travel are not in Scripture either.
Many liberties have been taken under administrative policies and then called holy.
"and DIVORCE is NOT the unforgivable sin."
Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery" - Mark 10:11-12
Adultery against a mate is NOT the unforgivable sin, and the sin does NOT require some administrative policy of exchange of money to be forgiven..... NOW there is a different penalty to commit spiritually speaking to commit adultery against the Heavenly Father... As Christ is called spiritually the 'bridegroom', and it will not do well for anyone to be messing around with a fake 'bridegroom', as it is WRITTEN.
That’s fine with me but then I don’t want to hear ANY nonsense about how preist’s are really just Christ on earth and that is why they are unmarried.
Please at least have some consistency in the logic
Celibacy is a discipline and is indeed based on the teaching of Scripture.