Is that really a requirement to preach the gospel and help people spiritually. That nuns and priests have to be single?
2006-10-01 08:43:35 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, in fact the Bible says that anyone who serves the Lord in a leadership or service capacity should be married, the exact opposite of what some churches have invented.
1 Timothy 3:2 It is necessary, therefore, for a bishop to be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful at teaching;
1 Timothy 3:12 Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children well, and their own houses.
"Bishops" are the people in charge and deacons are the people who serve under them. If a person feels called by God to remain single in order to serve the Lord, that's fine, but it's a personal calling and should not be imposed as a condition for service that contradicts what the Bible has to say.
2006-10-01 08:59:05 · answer #1 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't. If it did, there would not be married Catholic priests, yet there are many of them. In the Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church married men can become priests, and it is common. In the Western or Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, married men cannot become priests ordinarily, but there are still some exceptions, such as the many Anglican and Episcopalian priests who have converted to Catholicism. If they were married when they converted, and wish to continue as priests in the Catholic Church, they are allowed to do so. It doesn't matter whether the Bible says anything about this or not. This isn't a matter of doctrinal belief. It is simply a matter of church discipline, that is, rules and regulations. Surely the Church has the right to make rules governing its own priesthood??
2006-10-01 09:48:11 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All I really know that catholic priests and nuns try to lead the life of Jesus Christ and all that means that they have to be single, poor and have no sex, since Jesus Christ were all of these things. It is mainly based on the doctrine of the Catholic church than on any references in the Holy Bible and this has been done since the catholic church began with the very first pope, St. Peter.
2006-10-01 08:50:04 · answer #3 · answered by marcyfiorica 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont care if its in the bible or not.
Preist or not, I will always marry, if I lose my previous loved one.
And I will not reject previous loved ones by doing annulment.
My dad had to have past divorces or widow status annulled or approved of to marry his latest wife (she catholic).
I will never change my faith in order to marry.
If the marriage cannot withstand a difference of faiths...it should not be.
I consider any religion that wont allow marriage in preisthood or subdigates women to 2nd class status to be a 'cult' or fake religion and that does include both muslim & catholism
2006-10-01 09:10:09 · answer #4 · answered by pcreamer2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, it's not.
I think they base it on the following text, which is NOT a commandment
1 Cor.7:6. But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
9. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10. And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
2006-10-01 08:45:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it does not. In fact, the Bible says to stay away from religions that do. It says that they have an appearence of Holiness, but deny the power of the Holy Ghost.
2006-10-01 08:51:42 · answer #6 · answered by Apostle Jeff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, it's not Biblical. In fact, a great deal of things the Catholic church teaches aren't Biblical. That's why the Protestants came to be.
2006-10-01 08:55:18 · answer #7 · answered by Writer of Truth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, both priests and nun take a vow of chasity as obedience to God, so they can devote their lives to God and faith and not be distracted by sexual matters. It also teaches dicipline to control one's erges or desires. They volunteer to do this as a sign of their faith and love of God.
2006-10-01 08:58:35 · answer #8 · answered by 1stclassgal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are two priests hoods in the bible.yes priests can and are too get married.some choose to not because of there vow to god that is why they dont get married.
2006-10-01 08:49:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's not in the Bible at all. It's in the Cathechism, which is NOT God's Word, but external laws, created by man.
2006-10-01 08:47:54 · answer #10 · answered by Lisa 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋