Q.E.D. Are either of you, Iscool or metmom, ready to defend a forced marriage requirement?You're being goofy now...I'm not interested in man's rules...God says you hafta be married with a family...If God wants you to oversee one of his flocks, he'll provide what ever is necessary and you will like it...
Mmm, no. God doesn't say "You hafta be married with a family" in order to oversee a flock. Jesus wasn't married. Paul wasn't married. Jesus said some are unmarried for the Kingdom of God. And Paul said he thought, in his view, the unmarried state was preferable.
So many people ignore that!