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To: JCBreckenridge
Meaning you give your RC explanation why they are distinctively titled priests and are required (apart from special cases) to be celibate. But which is contrary to the Holy Spirit in the NT.

You are the one who is part of the incessant promotion of a particular church here, and the issue is the basis for authenticity of it and is ministers. What is the basis for your full assurance that Rome is the one true infallible church? Being the steward of Scripture? Historical descent? Inheritor of promises?

296 posted on 05/12/2013 4:27:21 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

“Meaning you give your RC explanation why they are distinctively titled priests and are required (apart from special cases) to be celibate. But which is contrary to the Holy Spirit in the NT.”

Couple things here.

Paul speaks very clearly in the NT as to why celibate priests are advantageous. “The man who is married has his heart divided, while the man who is unmarried is free to devote himself to God”.

So the discipline is *not* contrary to the NT.

Two, there is the Byzantine rite in the Catholic church. Eastern liturgy, submission to Rome and they have no celibacy requirement. Celibacy is only a part of the Latin Rite - which, while predominant, is not the only Rite that’s a part of the Catholic church.


314 posted on 05/12/2013 7:18:36 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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