No, the Catholic priesthood does not practice nepotism. Interestingly enough, most Protestant churches have ministers who often involve their children in the ministry and once adults, take over their minister father’s role.
I wasn’t the one relating the Catholic priesthood to the Aaronic, you were. If they were similar, my point is that one would expect to see this. Since they are not, we don’t.
Interesting. Your logic determines that all temples must be in Jerusalem in order to be valid. What about Jewish temples that are outside Israel?
Again, you’re the one equating the Catholic priesthood with the Aaronic. If they really are similar, one might expect to find this feature in the Catholic priesthood. We don’t because they aren’t similar beyond a generic idea of priesthood which the RCC shares with any number of religious orderings.
You don’t know much about Catholicism, do you?
You seem to be missing my point again. I know very well that Catholic priests do not marry and have children. My point is that Jewish priests did and if the Catholic priesthood really has so much in common with them one might expect to see this too among Catholic priests.
The reason we don’t is because, again, there is no particular similarity.
Really? Give one real world case.
The Borgias who bought the papacy. It is also commonly known that the papacy was, during the renaissance, a prize over which the great families of Italy fought both clandestine and overt battles.
The sale of episcopal sees generally was a growth industry during the same period.
So anything that has to do with hierarchy means they are influenced by paganism? You need to tell that to your ministers too.
You can’t be this obtuse.
I didn’t say that. What I said what that there are features common to the idea of a priest which Catholicism shares with all religions having priests. I chose the example of pagans because it would be every bit as stark as your effort to relate Islam and Protestantism with the added bonus of being grounded in reality.
Yes, it was through the efforts of the Catholic Church that you have the Bible today. Unfortunately, it took one rogue priest to ruin it. Fortunately, he wasn’t able to mislead the entire Church. It took another motley crew of wannabe Luthers to completely ruin the essence of orthodox Christianity and form their own scholarly revisionist version of Church history.
Rah, rah, rah. Feel better now?
I asked for a sincere opinion. This thread could work both ways.
No, you didn’t, you baited a trap.
It could work for Protestants like yourself or against Protestants. It all depends on how you want it to go. I went to numerous Protestant churches on my journey Home. I also spent 12 years studying in a Presbyterian missionary school as a student, took Bible Studies as a subject in school (and aced it) and was heavily involved in the Boys Brigade, although i was not yet a Christian back then. How much do you know about your own faith? Are you going to give me adult orientated opinions on the thread subject or are you going to continue whining? By the way, i have noticed most Protestants call threads that question their theology ‘asinine’. What’s new?
I call it asinine because Protestantism could not be further from Islam and because if you have all this Protestant history you should know it.
Protestantism rests upon the idea of grace as unmerited and unmeritable favor that is completely alien to Islam. Islam has no such idea in it.
Some Protestants approach their sacred texts in a manner similar to that of some Muslims, but in their apprehension of how one obtains the favor of God, Muslims and Catholics are far more uniformly in the same boat.
