Protestants reject Paul's teaching on Married/Celibate Clergy in 1 Tim 3:2?

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lanman87 said:
I think if someones personal conviction is to remain single and serve the Kingdom then go for it. I just think requiring someone to remain celibate to hold the offices of bishop/elder/pastor was not taught by the apostles. I think Paul thought it was best to remain unmarried, but other apostles didn’t see it as a big deal. As others have posted, there is nothing wrong with a minister being unmarried and nothing wrong with a minister being married.
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Why not?

The priesthood is a choice. Candidates for the priesthood know that going in. It’s not like it’sa surprise spring on the candidates at the last moment.

Just like married men would be required to stay faithful to their wives. Men who are engaged know that being married requires faithfulness yet they decide to make that choice anyway.

My experience with Protestants is that single Christians are treated as second class citizens, treated with suspicion and sometimes hostility. Celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom is nonexistent and the family is idolized.
 
lanman87 said:
I don’t know but aren’t are callings from God overwhelming feeling and desire to do something or be something. Isn’t that why people become priest and monks and preachers and missionaries?

I’ve heard preachers and missionaries describe “the calling” as “God put something on my heart that I just couldn’t shake and I knew if I wasn’t obedient that I would be miserable”.

However, my uneducated guess is that some of the ministers today do have a call to singleness but ignore it due to cultural norms. They are well aware that a single 35 year old man who has never been married will be suspected of being a homosexual or at the very least of being a little strange. 🤷
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So if Jesus came to your church would he be accepted as He is, a single man in his 30s, an itenerant preacher and sometime carpenter, how would he be treated?

In this scenario no one expects Him to be coming.
 
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The priesthood is a choice. Candidates for the priesthood know that going in. It’s not like it’sa surprise spring on the candidates at the last moment.
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And it is only a requirement in one part of the priesthood - the Latin Catholic part of it.
Just like married men would be required to stay faithful to their wives. Men who are engaged know that being married requires faithfulness yet they decide to make that choice anyway.
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And this is why I understand the discipline. My dad was often pulled in both directions when we were kids.
My experience with Protestants is that single Christians are treated as second class citizens, treated with suspicion and sometimes hostility. Celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom is nonexistent and the family is idolized.
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I never felt that way as a single Lutheran. I was never criticized for being single, and I was single until age 31. My daughter is a teacher in the LCMS. She is approaching 30, is single, and I am not aware of any “second-class” citizenship or criticism.

It may be your experience, but is also more evidence of the worthlessness of the term “protestant”.

Jon
 
Regarding the question of “Is Cephas the same as Peter?” here is an article on that which suggests they were different people, as a few Church Fathers say, though most Church Fathers do say they were the same person:

Link: Did Paul really rebuke Peter?
 
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