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To: 5thGenTexan

Try Matt 19 and “eunuchs for the kingdom”

Marriage is not essential to full humanity. There’s even a Jewish tradition of voluntary celibacy for prophets (”schools of the prophets” in the OT). That Jesus was not married is not of no significance. He was married to the Ecclesia, his Bride. Ephesians 5.

Without some people living voluntary celibacy marriage is not fully understood. Without some people being married, voluntary celibacy is not fully understood. The two are interrelated.

If the universal Christian claim that Jesus was unmarried were simply overturned, you’d have 2000 years of Christian belief proved to have been false. If the Church got all that wrong all these years, based on a scrap of papyrus whose owner won’t even reveal where he acquired it, then what else did the Church get wrong all these years?

Your casual willingness to abandon 2000 years of belief is breathtaking.


38 posted on 09/18/2012 12:05:06 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: Houghton M.
Your casual willingness to abandon 2000 years of belief is breathtaking.

My faith is based on a very personal salvation experience.

It is not rooted in the details of the church teachings or "belief". Same for things like the Shroud of Turin, the exact locations of sites like tombs, etc.

While I find them interesting, and I seek to learn more, I am strong in my faith in my Lord.

60 posted on 09/18/2012 12:31:35 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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