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See post 918 And not all of the Apostles were celibate and still served God well.

You should try some of this too...... “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:48 “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. Luke...

Matthew 19:4-6 4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh...

I am not trying to be coy or evade the question. I am simply humbled by the number of relatively good interpretations of the prophecies. Most of the prophetic books were written in the Hebrew Bible. Since prophetic writings have their own style which is not necessarily clearly stated, it is all...

Should we go to church? Does going to church matter? What is a church? Does it matter to God if we go to church or not? Does the Bible say we should assemble to worship the Lord? Is believing enough or should we assemble to worship God too? Should we only attend a perfect church? How do we...

Very good points but my answer would way to long.

This is one of the reasons that you cannot read the Bible like its the local Sunday paper. For the Jews, for a guy to remain celibate, it was like spitting on the cross. Could a celibate man be a Jewish religious leader.....? Look it up. LOL Scarcely any references to celibates are to be found...

Celibacy has no meaning for Christian service. It is so unnatural that it is nothing but a distraction from Christian service and it has done nothing but cause the Catholic Church disgrace and cost the Church millions to pay damages. You can look on the pedophile registry list in your area. You...

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One big "silly stuff" COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON Year: 451 Summary: The Council of Chalcedon -- 150 bishops under Pope Leo the Great and the Emperor Marcian -- defined the two natures (Divine and human) in Christ against Eutyches, who was excommunicated. Defining the nature of Christ on earth or in...

Here is the deal.....what does the truth do? My studies and my ministry I call the Johnny Appleseed of Truth. The truth in any congregation or open forum is going to offend somebody. I am a candle of truth in a wind storm of lies and false beliefs, but that is my calling. Christians deserve to...

Yes, the bishops of the church continued to play the major role in interpreting Scripture and constructing theology based on biblical exegesis. Yet behind the bishops and presbyters during and after the Council of Nicaea stood a series of Christian Roman emperors more than willing to intervene...

The reading of scriptures is part of knowing the truth but they can cause false beliefs if not read in context of when and under what circumstances they were written. I have said it so many times....you cannot understand the scriptures if you read them like the local Sunday paper....and...

To understand the Early Roman Catholic Church (325 AD and on) you have to understand the Roman way of thinking and doing things and then you have to understand who is running the Church and who isn't. There were no Jewish-Christians at the Ecumenical Councils that I know of......Its all...

Good memory.....I do reject the doctrine of Original Sin ( Augustine was crazy for sure) and Calvin was crazy and blasphemous. And I do not remember that about Martin but it is not impossible. Here is the thing....what is Baptism? What are all the aspects of Baptism? Its spiritual effects, it...

Show us a priest that decided to take a wife while he was a priest. I have a friend that is a priest and we meet and have dinner and drinks on occasion and this topic has come up. So your explaination does not hold water. And if I remember correctly Paul objected to James's requirement to be...

"Anti" Catholics or Catholic haters are ignorant in the truest sense. These people do not even know their own history much less what is going on with the Catholics.....The problem is with people that are not Catholic or even religious. Someone that is considering looking into Christianity....Do...

Respect for authority is fine. And having favorites is fine....One guy may have Peter as a favorite the next guy could favor Paul or Luke or Matthew, and that is fine. That is not where the problem is. But for a guy to say....Paul is the absolute Apostle because Christ took him up to the third...

Why is there no true Church?....no body likes the truth. They would rather have a religion of false beliefs and fantasy. Your worshipping Peter does not help the Church and the celibacy thing has lead to modern day atrocities. Peter never functioned as the leader of the Apostles. He was a...

I understand the Protestant believe that you cannot talk to people that have died. And I understand it is not a well defined topic.... But you tell me how many people in the Bible that talked to people that had died. Now praying to them is a different topic.