[NYer]

What churches in our time have any doctrines that require a person to not be married? I can only find one.

Really? Which one? I can't think of any. I do know a young couple who were married in the Baptist Church, despite advising the minister they did not plan on having children. That would never happen in the Catholic Church. Refusal to have children is against the laws of God.

[metmom]

That would never happen in the Catholic Church. Refusal to have children is against the laws of God.

Oh?

Mary and Joseph immediately come to mind. Going against the laws of God is sin.

Catholicism made saints of them and claims Mary never sinned.

[CynicalBear]

Did you misread that statement? It didn’t say anything about having children. Read it again.

“How many churches in our time (or anytime), call themselves "Christian" and have any doctrine of forbidding to marry? Who else could Paul be seeing in his vision?”

That was talking about a church that “forbids to marry”. Now what did that have to do with people who are married having children?

And there is only one church that calls itself Christian who have a doctrine forbidding marriage and that is the Catholic church.