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Wake up, Christians....Psalm 127...Children are a blessing from the Lord...
If we view children as a hindrance or a bother, we need to repent of the sin of selfishness. Maybe one reason we as christians are not happy is because we disobey the mandate from God....his word tells us "Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward. . . . . Happy is the man whose quiver is full of them." Psalm 127. |
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| Megan, THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS UP! |
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Watching this is really scary....*gulp*!!!!!!! We really need to go witnessing sometime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ray Comfort style:D |
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| We should all become Catholics. |
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| The reason I stated the above is do to the fact that Catholicism has many of the things that draw people to Islam. The calling to prayer in Islam, the ringing of the Angelus bell in Catholicism which calls Christians to stop and pray. The praying five times a day in Islam, the canonical hours of prayer (Lauds, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline. Though most just do Lauds and Vespers),rather than the chador, we have the mantilla (at least in"classic catholicsism"), and there is a very developed theology concerning birth control as well. |
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| It would also be nice if the evangelist that made the video actually cited the sources he used. |
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| MD...you are so mistaken about Jesus not being married....the church is His bride.... |
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| LOL...and you are mistaken about celibates, they are married to the Church is they are men and Jesus if they are women. |
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| So, the church has more than one husband? Huh? |
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| Yes Debbie. Priests (who are unmarried) are considered married to the Church. Just as nuns and lay monks are considered "brides" of Christ. |
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What scripture reference is that...I thought the marriage analogy was ONE MAN/ONE WOMAN...? Just curious... |
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| No scriptural reference, its a discipline of the Church. But if one wants to say that Christ is married to the Church, then the analogy does hold. The Church as ecclesial community is made up of individual members is it not? Both men and women. By extension, Christ is married to each individual member. |
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| Thank you... |
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| And, ALL are priests... |
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| No. There is no male or female in heaven. Here it is a different matter. Not all are priests, at least as far as the sacrificial office go. |
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| Do priests choose not to marry, or are they forbidden? |
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| A celibate priest most closely models Jesus Christ, who was celibate. He also, stands in "Persona Christi" in most of the sacraments and since in Heaven there will be no marriage, the priest also models life in the age to come. In the Eastern Orthodox churches and even some non Latin rite Catholic Churches married men are ordained to the priesthood. But the married ones cannot become Bishops. And people in these churches prefer the unmarried priests to the married ones for the obvious reason that an unmarried priest can be married to the Church as he is called to be, and a more available father. But they must marry before ordination; they cannot afterwards marry. And in the Latin Rite Catholic Church Deacons can be married but if their wife dies they may not remarry. These are the disciplines of ordination.
While it was this was the tradition from the early church, it was not established as a clerical discipline until the First Lateran Council in 1123. |
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| Debbie, with all due respect, marriage is no protector to child abuse. And statistically speaking, there is more abuse by the married clergy than their is by the celibate clergy. |
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