Category: Celibacy

  • Forbidding to Marry

    There is a very old error that derogates marriage and attempts to forbid marriage. In its extreme form, it forbids marriage of all Christians. In a less extreme form, it forbids marriage of office holders. It is that form that we see in the Roman Catholic church today. Introduction 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Now the Spirit…

  • Criticism of Rome’s Celibate Priesthood – Rebuttals to Objections

    A while back I had blogged a post on the Married Priest Movement (link), which garnered a variety of criticism, from one guy who insists that I must use the word “dissent” the way he says his church does – to several more interesting comments that I’d like to discuss below. The people are being…