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Possessed
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HotRod's Playgroud - The thread where he can be a hypocrite, a bigot, and a jerk without screwing around with other people's threads
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19-Dec-2013, 5:06 PM

RicOlie_2 said:

Possessed said:

darth_ender said:

celibacy

 Some churches say that,  but the bible NEVER in the new testament commands anyone to be celibate.  Never.  Not priests, not teachers, nobody.  The old testament might, but that's for judaism not christianity.  But anyways, that was off topic of me, but I felt it important...

 Celibacy in the Catholic Church is only a discipline that allows priests to focus all their attention on God and their parish. Also, in my Church, the Bible isn't considered the highest authority. Priests in other rites of the Roman Catholic Church can be married when they are ordained, and this is possible for converts to the Catholic Church as well. In my religion it doesn't matter if it doesn't say something in the Bible. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that everything must be based on Scripture so I don't believe that.

 My only problem with that idea is that if it's not in the bible, it's something a person made up.  Sure, many believe that the entire bible is made up by a person.  But I, and many don't believe that.  I'm sure you don't believe that either.  So my problem is that if it isn't from the bible, you're putting your trust in something somebody came up with, not in God.

(PS. The bible talks about a time when all continents on the earth were together as one.  the idea of pangea.  It's in the bible.  Also that the earth is round.  Well they didn't have globes back then, it's not like they could just look at the landforms and say "Hey, they fit together like a puzzle.  Teehee." So how did they know? Hmm...")

But anyway.  As long as things are taken as 'advice', I have no problem with that.  What I have problems with is when humans say something HAS to be that way.  Something MUST be that way, or it's wrong.  What is absolutely right or wrong we don't have the authority to dictate.  Advice on what we should do to better live our lives is different, of course.  But when you absolutely FORBID somebody to have a mate in order to fit into a (usually man-made) position with no basis in scripture, well I disagree.