[OLDCATH-L] [old_catholic] Remarks on Celibacy Requirement

[Sam'l B]

1)	Paul is not Jesus

2)	The Church interprets 1 Ti as saying "at most" one wife -- not as 
requiring a wife.

+S

Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> Sam'l B wrote:
>> On 02/12/2010 04:45 PM, Bill Leaming wrote:
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>>  > Only Roman priests are forced to
>>> reject either the Sacrament of Matrimony or the Sacrament of Orders -
>>> Jesus infallibly allowed both."
>> 	Where?   Chapter & Verse, please.
> 
> 1Cr 9:5  Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as 
> other apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
> 
> Remember that Jesus Ordained Peter (Cephas), and probably some of the 
> others mentioned, and Peter was already married at the time of his 
> Ordination, because he was married before it.
> 
> Mat 8:14  And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's 
> mother laid, and sick of a fever.
> 
> Then, Paul requires:
> 
> 1Ti 3:2  A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, 
> vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
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