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You don’t have a church? Do you consider yourself a Christian?
Of course not! God will ultimately judge us all. But God also wants His Church to be one. Heresy and schism are diametrically opposed to unity. Listen to the saintly Augustine addressing his congregation:
Sermon 269.
Sermons: 230-272B (Works of Saint Augustine, a Translation for the 21st Century: Part 3 - Sermons ISBN 1565480597
But where is the humility and obedience when one refuses to “hear the Church?”
“And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church:* but if he neglect to hear the church*, let him be to you as an heathen man and a publican.” Matt. 18:17
But certainly celibacy is not required for eternal life; but, contrary to the insane ravings of Luther, Calvin and all the rest of the so-called “reformers,” celibacy does indeed come most highly praised and recommended from the Creator and Redeemer Himself! That in and of itself ought to have been enough to silence those “apostles of the flesh” as Fr. Denifle so rightly terms them, along with their benighted followers.
And are you unaware that from the very beginning of the Church, there have been those set apart exclusively for the love and service of God, again, contrary to the teachings of the reformers? As a matter of fact, there was even an official “list” of celibate widows mentioned in the Bible.
St. Paul, writing to St. Timothy, says:
“Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.” 1 Tim. 5:9
The phrase, “taken into the number” (KJV) or, “put on the list” (NAS), is derived from a single Greek word,
"katalego."
This is our English word, "catalog!"
So you see, the Church, even from the beginning, had an official “catalog” of an “order of widows” who were to form an integral part of the New Testament Church! And from the seeds of this early “order of widows” (“proto-nuns” as Jimmy Akin calls them), {1} sprang all future orders of celibate nuns.
Needless to say, Protestants, despite their claiming to go by the Bible, never mention this important New Testament practice or its historic development. And this is how they show their “love” for the Word of God??!
But why follow his teachings rather than those of the great Doctors, Saints, Martyrs etc of both the Eastern and Western Church?
- See Jimmy akin, “Doctrines of Demons,” This Rock, March 1994.
Now we don’t want anything to do with her… we want to put her away FOR OBVIOUSLY she was with another Man, we think… but then we have a dream and angel came to us and told us not to be affraid to take Mary as Wife, for Mary has concieved by the Power of the Holy Spirit and will have the Savior of the World…we all would be in AWE of MARY as was Elizabeth and the child John in her womb… I tell you right there and then we would know our ROLE… If we wanted to put her away for thinking she was with another man… Now Joseph finding out that the Child True Father was The HOLY SPIRIT the TRUE SPOUSE of Mary he would never have intercourse with her… Would YOU? …NO WE WOULD NOT …DEFINITELY WE WOULD KNOW OUR ROLE AS JOSEPH DID. Common sense should tell us all this.
