[one Lord one faith one baptism]

“in the latter times some shall depart from the faith”

to this to be true, the latter times would need to be ad95!

remember my friend, Protestants departed from the Catholic Faith, not vice versa. seems to me Paul was talking about the Reformation.
forbidding to marry - this refers to the Church being the Bride of Christ, if you aren’t in the Church, you aren’t married to Christ.
abstaining from meat - this means not receiving the Eucharist, which is the Body of Christ.

[metmom]

Post 127.

And another one for your home page.

[HopeandGlory]

Church being the Bride of Christ

NO, the Church is the "Body of Christ" (the saved) . . . the Bride is the new Jerusalem.

Tim. 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. KJV

[sasportas]

“Paul was talking about the Reformation.
forbidding to marry - this refers to the Church being the Bride of Christ, if you aren’t in the Church, you aren’t married to Christ.
abstaining from meat - this means not receiving the Eucharist, which is the Body of Christ.

I think this must be one of the most obvious examples of wresting the apostle Paul I’ve ever seen from a Papist (2 Peter 3:16). Or, per verse 2 of our 1 Tim. 4 passage, “speaking lies in hypocrisy.”