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Nonsense. The Lord never taught anything about bishops being husbands of one wife, nor that presbyters and their wives are to be "model citizens."

1Ti 3:1-7 This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

The doctrines of the Church concern themselves with the Holy Trinity and Christ, based on the Scripture and what was not reduced to writing but taught by Apostoles verbally.

Someone in the Church must not have gotten the message.

HD, you are quoting +Paul not the Lord. I said "the Lord never taught anything about bishops being husbands of one wife..." and your Protestant random verse machine is spewing out an irrelevant ecclesiological verse by +Paul. Maybe it's time to get a newer model.

Maybe then you can find a verse where Christ himself says anything about ecclesiology.