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To: Secret Agent Man; metmom; ReformationFan

There is no biblical reason for leaders in the Christian church to not be married. Paul says he wishes more could be, but that is not a command you must be.

Well, let's not forget the "First Pope" was married.

"And when Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever." (Matthew 8:14)

Now I'm sure Rome will give us the usual blather that somehow this was an aberration and why later the Roman Catholic Church, through some spiritual hocus-pocus, divined some reason priests shouldn't marry. But the fact is. Peter was married.

26 posted on 01/27/2013 4:15:52 PM PST by Gamecock ( If we distort the gospel, that distortion will influence and affect everything else that we believe)

"And when Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever." (Matthew 8:14)

You have apparently been confused by what Luther started.

The REAL question is what Jesus' mother-in-law was doing in Peter's house!

61 posted on 01/28/2013 4:08:50 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

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