We were talking about Peter being a married Jewish man, keeping the law as he knew it.
I still maintain that in all likelihood Peter was not celibate until after the Crucifixion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus.
Yes, Peter had sex wirth a woman. Holy Cow!
You young seminarians are so brainwashed nowadays. Try to think for yourself.
Marital sex is good. God made it that way.
A celibate clergy is a manmade concept....observed only in the breach in countries like Mexico, Spain, Italy, and all over Africa.
Widen your horizons, boy, and do a little more outside reading.
Or do you still adhere to the Index of Forbidden Books?
Palladin: “I still maintain that in all likelihood Peter was not celibate until after the Crucifixion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus.”
Pure speculation. All Scripture says is that he had a mother-in-law. This is a manmade interpretation.
“You young seminarians are so brainwashed nowadays. Try to think for yourself.”
I’m not a seminarian. I’m married for 30 years. Stop reading things into texts. You speculate wildly. You created a huge manmade myth about me, based on zero evidence.
“Marital sex is good. God made it that way.”
I never said otherwise. Abstinence from sex has NOTHING to do with sex not being good. By your stupid reasoning, anyone who diets does so because food is EEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVIIIIIIIILOLLLLL. You are a fool, Boy.
“A celibate clergy is a manmade concept....observed only in the breach in countries like Mexico, Spain, Italy, and all over Africa.”
It’s not a manmade CONCEPT. Read Matthew 19, for once, Boy. The concept comes from Jesus himself, explicitly. Rather than your manmade speculations and inventions, I have explicit Scripture behind the idea of abstaining.
“Widen your horizons, boy, and do a little more outside reading.”
Shut your trap, Boy.
“Or do you still adhere to the Index of Forbidden Books?”
Have you stopped beating your wife or screwing goats?
A celibate clergy exists in every country on the planet, including the US, through the presence of the Catholic Church.