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To: dsutah

There is no celibacy command for the ministry:

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife...
1 Tim. 2:2, KJV.

A minister can be unmarried, as Paul, or married. The Gnostics, however, add to what Paul said.


78 posted on 04/03/2011 3:25:09 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas

It’s understandable, the type of travelling rough and tumble ministry that Paul had, he would choose to be unmarried, but to a pastor/bishop overseeing a church of married couples, it seems assumed that they were, or should be, married, “the husband of one wife.”


79 posted on 04/03/2011 3:39:49 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas
The Gnostics, however, add to what Paul said.

Therefore anybody that changes stuff after Paul is a Gnostic? Really?

81 posted on 04/03/2011 3:56:59 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: sasportas

Straw man! He’s talking about the relationship of the Bishop with his flock. Sir, celebacy is a discipline not dogma. And another thing, you’re no expert in Catholicism so don’t pretend to be.


96 posted on 04/03/2011 8:17:38 PM PDT by Pope Pius XII (There's no such thing as divorce)
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