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To: Gluteus Maximus

There human beings, with all that entails, you pompous, self-righteous twit.


25 posted on 11/17/2012 2:02:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s supposed to be people who want to submit to holiness, which ought to dampen down that “average human being” child molestation impulse. Not give it a privileged platform to carry on as if what were being assented to were a bunch of meaningless ceremony.


27 posted on 11/17/2012 2:04:48 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
There human beings, with all that entails, you pompous, self-righteous twit.

Your name-calling evinces the poverty of your argument (as does your apparently poor grasp of proper English spelling).

But be that as it may, St. Paul made it clear that those who serve the Church must be much better than average. Our beloved Paul makes that abundantly clear. If a person isn't better than average, then he or she shouldn't be in the clergy. Thus, your position flatly contradicts Scripture.

1 Timothy 3 1It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. 2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. 4He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity 5(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?), 6and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil. 7And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

8Deacons likewise must be men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain, 9but holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 10These men must also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons if they are beyond reproach. 11Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things. 12Deacons must be husbands of only one wife, and good managers of their children and their own households. 13For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a high standing and great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

39 posted on 11/17/2012 2:59:40 PM PST by Gluteus Maximus
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