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I agree that women can work in the Church and that they can preach and even evangelize. But they cannot be ordained priests. Women can do all the preaching they want, and God can call them to preach.....but again they cannot become priests. Why? Because they are not the head of the house...

Hello Shep, First you say that there is nowhere in the word of God where He ordained anyone. Then in your next sentence, you ask why women can't be ordained to preach the Gosepl. It seems to me that you understood what "ordained" means afterall. :D If you had read the entire thread, I...

A Christian does not believe in three deities (gods). There is only ONE God. To say that there are three deities is the same as saying that there are three gods. That would be polytheism. You said that there are three deities. The word "deity" is god. We never say that there are three...

Hello Shep, I think you missed the point. No one here said that ONLY the Apostles were to go out and preach. Both the Apostles and the disciples were allowed to go out and preach, but NOT all the disciples were called by God to be ordained priests. There is a difference between a disciple...

And no matter what form He takes, He is still God. The title is given to those three because those three are the one and same God.

And I have been telling you that God is three persons in One. And yes, as you can see, the Early Church including Justin Martyr says to also worship Jesus because they believed in the Holy Trinity. My brother, not everything is found in Scripture. St. John pointed out that there are many...

My brother, God's hands is never tied down. It is us who tie ourselves down. And one day, God will reach us and untie our hands. God bless. :) In Christ, Selene

It is not contradictory. Anyone who studied science understands that water can take three different forms and still have the same exact atomic substance. A scientist can even show that when water reached a certain level, all three forms (liquid water, ice, and water vapor) actually become one...

Regarding Justin Martyr, this is what you left out: <LI>150 AD Justin Martyr "But both Him, and the Son (who came forth from Him and taught us these things, and the host of the other good angels who follow and are made like to Him), and the prophetic Spirit, we worship and adore." (Justin...

The early Church believed that there is three persons in one God. You ask how can the Father who is invisible be Jesus who is visible? You think that God can be explained according to your own limited human logic. You do not understand that God can defy logic. The Holy Trinity means that...

The concept of the Trinity means that God is three persons in one. That means that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one and the same and yet different. In other words, the Father is BOTH equal and yet greater than the Son. The problem here is that you are trying to understand God...

My brother, the Scripture says, "In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word was with God (Deity), and the Word was God (Deity). You are simply putting the word "the Father" where you want it to be and leaving it out where you want it left out. If you believe that the Deity is God the...

I disagree with some things that you posted. First of all, I agree that not all men are good priests. But then again, what priests are good priests when all are sinners including the Apostles. God did not choose the righteous. He chooses the sinners....sometimes even the worse sinners like...

I also noticed that Butch had nothing to say about the biblical scripture saying that the Word came down in the flesh and that the Word is God. :)

Actually, "Almighty God" and "Mighty God" are referred to the Father according to some of the Scriptures. Genesis 49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty [God] of Jacob; (from thence [is] the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)...

They are the same because Scripture says that Jesus and the Father are one. Scripture also says that Jesus was the Word that came down in the flesh (John 1:14), and this Word that became flesh is God (John 1:1).

I had to google St. Clements comment and St. Paul's marriage. I think the weblink below properly explains it better. St. Paul was single like Jesus Christ...

Hi Jiggyfly, Could you be more specific regarding Clement's opinion? Would I take parental advice from someone who has never been a parent? First of all, I am actually a single person with no kids of my own, but I do teach children and I have babysat children. I have taken teenagers on a...

I don't think that cussing and the use of profanity alone determines whether one is a Christian or not. There are some who don't cuss or use profane words; yet, they commit adultery and do other things that are worse than cussing.

Just because a person is single and don't have a wife and children does not mean that they cannot run a Church. My priest was born in a family with parents and many siblings. His experience of a family is from his own family of having a mother, father, and siblings. St. Paul was single and he...