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To: NYer
I'm surprised that anyone that says they're Christian would even go near a practice like that.

1 Tim 4:1-3
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.


1 Tim 3:2
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

1 Cor 11:11
11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

Errr...seems that the Apostle Paul was very clear on this subject. Paul straight up says that forbidding to marry is a doctrine of the devil. I don't see how you get around this.
41 posted on 01/28/2013 1:33:16 PM PST by MeOnTheBeach
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To: MeOnTheBeach
Errr...seems that the Apostle Paul was very clear on this subject.

Err .. 1 Cor 7. St. Paul clearly identifies the state of virginity or celibacy as a state that is better than the state of marriage.

42 posted on 01/28/2013 1:44:01 PM PST by NYer ("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." --Jeremiah 1:5)
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