I got married to Christ

[Captdon]

We mock when it's not backed up with scripture and man made. Nowhere does He tell women to marry Him and abstain from marrying a man and having children. But then again another which is ignored is His requirements of a pastor over a church. He didn't say I would like He said they must be a man with one wife and obedient children.

There is nothing wrong with it at all. It is only a show of obedience or public announcement scripture for virginity. You do accept that as a requirement, don't you? No harm is being done.

Read Matthew 19:12. Jesus didn't say a pastor had to be married. He said they had to be faithful husbands and raise children properly if they were.

[Captdon]

HE said that, or Paul said that?

No one said that. Roadmaster doesn't know scripture very well. It's like any cafeteria Christian.

[Standing Wolf]

We mock when it's not backed up with scripture and man made. Nowhere does He tell women to marry Him and abstain from marrying a man and having children. But then again another which is ignored is His requirements of a pastor over a church. He didn't say I would like He said they must be a man with one wife and obedient children.

All segments of the Church - Catholic, Protestant, evangelical, etc. - and their adherents do things "not backed up with scripture and man made", as do other Faiths. These things usually relate to some attempt, however misplaced, to show piety, however unsupported by any scripture or divorced from a scripture's original meaning. The more close-knit and insular a community, the more interplay (and confusion) generally exists between religious doctrine and secular norms and practices. These displays of piety may be a good thing, a bad thing or a mixed blessing. As Capdon noted, there is usually no harm and, really, no one else's business.

Mennonites and Amish do not wear mustaches because they were a sign, in 16th-18th Century Europe, of a military man, and those sects are pacifistic. Beards, on the other hand, are grown by all married men within those communities because of an admonition in Leviticus that referred to certain "heathen" practices involving trimming the hair and beard in particular ways to honor their gods. Um, like...



Anyway...

(Similarly, the Jewish dietary prohibition against mixing meat and milk products like cheese derives from a scriptural warning about "boiling a calf in its mother's milk" - something else that was apparently done as a religious ceremony by some non-Jews in that time and place.)

Catholic practices to show piety, whether church required, church sanctioned or just tolerated by the church, have got to be the most numerous and varied - due, I think, in large part to the Church's teaching concerning continuing revelation. Where Tradition is considered to be of coequal authority with Scripture, there is almost limitless room for "new rules" to crop up. And crop up, through the centuries, they have.

[Captdon]

All segments of the Church - Catholic, Protestant, evangelical, etc. - and their adherents do things "not backed up with scripture and man made", as do other Faiths. These things usually relate to some attempt, however misplaced, to show piety, however unsupported by any scripture or divorced from a scripture's original meaning. The more close-knit and insular a community, the more interplay (and confusion) generally exists between religious doctrine and secular norms and practices. These displays of piety may be a good thing, a bad thing or a mixed blessing. As Capdon noted, there is usually no harm and, really, no one else's business.

Mennonites and Amish do not wear mustaches because they were a sign, in 16th-18th Century Europe, of a military man, and those sects are pacifistic. Beards, on the other hand, are grown by all married men within those communities because of an admonition in Leviticus that referred to certain "heathen" practices involving trimming the hair and beard in particular ways to honor their gods. Um, like...



Anyway...

(Similarly, the Jewish dietary prohibition against mixing meat and milk products like cheese derives from a scriptural warning about "boiling a calf in its mother's milk" - something else that was apparently done as a religious ceremony by some non-Jews in that time and place.)

Catholic practices to show piety, whether church required, church sanctioned or just tolerated by the church, have got to be the most numerous and varied - due, I think, in large part to the Church's teaching concerning continuing revelation. Where Tradition is considered to be of coequal authority with Scripture, there is almost limitless room for "new rules" to crop up. And crop up, through the centuries, they have.

There is also a misconception by non-Catholics about dogma, church law and local practice. Dogma never changes. Church laws often change. The Latin Mass was church law. Some Catholic priests give the final blessing front the front and others from the rear of the church.

The revelations argument is heard over the Ascension of Mary to Heaven. I don't get into this because non-Catholics ignore her after Jesus is birth. She was more than His mother but is ignored for the most part.

There's the Rosary also. There's the Lady of Fatima.The list goes on and on and makes little or no difference for anything about salvation.

[roadmaster]

There is nothing wrong with it at all. It is only a show of obedience or public announcement scripture for virginity. You do accept that as a requirement, don't you? No harm is being done.

Read Matthew 19:12. Jesus didn't say a pastor had to be married. He said they had to be faithful husbands and raise children properly if they were.

You go to verses that have nothing to do with the subject. This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

[roadmaster]

It's 1 Timothy chapter 3. I have more too

[Captain Obvious]

[zachroidott]

Jesus Ketamine Christ!

[DGUtley]

One should not ridicule that which one clearly does not understand. I admire this woman’s devotion, love and dedication to Jesus Christ. I admire her faith, strength and desire to live a life wedded to the love of our Lord.

She is neither a whack job nor is she crazy.

[roadmaster]

HE said that, or Paul said that?

I don't understand your question.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.