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To: Mrs. Don-o
It’s Chriut who forgives the sin, of course-— through the priest.

Which distinctively titled, uniquely sacerdotal, normatively celibate Catholic priests where nowhere seen in the NT church. All this was a later unScriptural development.

The RC propaganda of which has been exposed as such before, but as it keeps being posting, so should the refutation.

50 posted on 11/21/2016 10:46:37 AM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212
Which distinctively titled, uniquely sacerdotal, normatively celibate Catholic priests where nowhere seen in the NT church

I don't know what you mean by "distinctively titled". Priests in the NT are called presbyteroi. Priests in the Greek church today are called presbyteroi. Is that straightforward enough for you?

"Uniquely sacerdotal"? What does that mean? See Ignatius of Antioch if you think ancient Christians didn't view presbyteroi as those who offered the Eucharistic sacrifice on behalf of the assembly.

Clerics in the early church were not "normatively celibate" because they were obviously all adult converts. However, since you seem to think you know all about Catholicism and are qualified to lecture the rest of us on its alleged "errors," you obviously must know that celibacy is not an intrinsic requirement for the reception of Holy Orders, but only a disciplinary one, so that the absence of celibacy as a requirement for the presbytery in the NT merely proves that that discipline hadn't been established yet.

87 posted on 11/21/2016 6:10:55 PM PST by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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