[Nosterrex]

God chose only intact males to be priests.
Jesus chose only intact males to be his disciples.
Paul writes: “Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says.”
“Let a woman learn in silence with all submission.
And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.”
The pastor or priest re-presents Christ (the bridegroom) to the congregation (the bride).
Jesus being male is not an accident, nor is the male gender of God the Father an accident. A female priestess or pastor will eventually turn God into a female or a hermaphrodite as we have seen happening in all the liberal denominations. The fastest way to turn a Christian church into a cult is having female pastors or priests. There is no prohibition against married clergy in the Scriptures. Peter was married. Paul does recommend a celibate life, but he does not command it. The teachings in the Scriptures is that a bishop or pastor have only one wife at a time. No such thing as a homosexual wife.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Do you mean, as opposed to eunuchs? Do you KNOW that all the disciples were “entire”, as horse people say? I guess you don’t mean “uncircumcised”, because Jews were supposed to be circumcised, which isn’t intact in that sense.

Honestly, I don’t remember about “intact”.

As for Paul’s writings - again, that’s Paul, not God. And at the same time, women are written in that very section of the Bible as teaching their local groups. How does all this jibe?