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To: metmom

Wrong.

Those with those types of occupations only get called in when they are ‘on call’. A priest is always on call - 24/7.

Apples and oranges and all that.

The priest is married to the church. As I mentioned, if a man is already married or needs to marry, he can become a Deacon. There is nothing to prevent a married man from serving the Church.

The ‘there would therefore be more priests available’ argument is faulty reasoning.


17 posted on 07/13/2017 12:09:30 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: MichaelCorleone
The priest is married to the church.

Not a Scriptural teaching.

This is what Paul commands concerning those whom God calls as leaders.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR DEACION AND ELDER

1 Timothy 3:1-13 The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain. They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless. Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things. Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

Titus 1:5-16 This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth. To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

And, of course, Catholics conveniently ignore the fact that the Catholic church had married priests for a good part of their history.

There is NOTHING that precludes a man from serving God while married, even in the function of a priest.

I notice that you also did not address the fact that there are married priests within the Roman right and other flavors of Catholicism, such as the Orthodox and they manage to make it work.

Besides, JESUS, NOT priests, is the bridegroom of the Bride, His church.

FWIW, forbidding to marry is considered a sign of false teachers according the the Scripture Catholics claim their church wrote.

1 Timothy 4:1-5 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

31 posted on 07/13/2017 1:21:54 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Somehow Peter, you remember Peter don’t you, and the other disciples were married and were able to spread the Gospel.


34 posted on 07/13/2017 2:16:44 PM PDT by ealgeone
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