Why the fuck can't bishops get married?

Every branch of Christianity has married clergy (even catholic spergs), so why the frick not bishops, usually? Why can an eastern Orthodox married man be priest but not bishop
>Inb4 muh monks
Why?
Same for eastern Catholics

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they're following the perfect role model of Jesus, who wasnt married.

    same goes for women and the Blessed Virgin Mary.

    you now understand why protestants denying the virginity of our Blessed Mother lead to the consequences of the west fall to communism.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Priests are doing the same with a wife and children tho?
      And there's more homosexual predators among bishops than godly men

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >you now understand why protestants denying the virginity of our Blessed Mother lead to the consequences of the west fall to communism.
      have a nice day

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >they're following the perfect role model of Jesus
      So Catholics believe in Sunnah now?

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Christianity is faith and tradition. Asking "why" doesn't make sense. What do you mean why? Because.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because they like being men in the front and women in the behind. Which is a saying from the time of the reformation.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Being in a monogamous heterosexual marriage is seen by traditional Christians as much better than fornication and homosexuality, but it still isn't the truly ideal lifestyle. Celibacy is. 1 Corinthians 7 is very clear on this point: "Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion."

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >1 Cor. 7:6-7 Now as a concession, not a command, I say this.I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.

      Paul in these passages is making a distinction between his own views and what God says. A few verses later:

      >1 Cor. 7:10 To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord)...
      >1 Cor. 7:12 To the rest I say (I, not the Lord)...

      Paul is stating his own wishes here, not an objective statement from God that celibacy is superior. Celibacy is well and good, and a desirable thing, but it is not commanded and is not an objectively better state. Also some of the Apostles were married, and Paul states that he has the right to be married:

      >1 Cor. 9:5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

      There is simply no justification for forbidding what you consider to be a "successor of the Apostles" from marrying, when the Apostles themselves could and did marry.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I agree that Paul says nothing about forbidding bishops or other church leaders from marrying, but he's quite explicit in saying that celibacy is spiritually preferable to marriage. It's not hard to get from a preference for celibacy to a mandate of celibacy.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          He says it is his (Paul's) preference -- "I wish ...". He is not saying it is God's preference. Note that he specifically makes these distinctions himself in the immediate surrounding text (v. 10, 12). And it should be quite hard to get from a preference to a mandate. As I showed, Paul states that the Apostles could and did marry, but you deny that their supposed successors can do this. You have no right to bind the consciences of people in this way (1 Tim. 4:1-4).

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >He says it is his (Paul's) preference -- "I wish ...". He is not saying it is God's preference.
            Why would Paul's opinion on moral behavior not be equivalent to what he thinks God wants?
            >As I showed, Paul states that the Apostles could and did marry, but you deny that their supposed successors can do this.
            Yes, I understand that the apostles could and did marry, and that if such marriages were allowed, it's logical that their successors should be allowed to marry too (even if it would be better for them to be celibate). I'm trying to explain how the Church reached the opposite conclusion, not what my own opinions on the matter are.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Why would Paul's opinion on moral behavior not be equivalent to what he thinks God wants?
            Because he makes the distinctions himself. Read verses 10 and 12 in the same chapter. Also not everything an Apostle does, in their private capacity, is infallible or necessarily correct:

            >Gal. 2:11-13 But when Cephas [Peter] came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.And the rest of the israelites acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Paul said celibacy is the superior way. So obviously the clergy should follow the superior way.
    Jesus also was celibate, and mentioned celibacy 'those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. '

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Does that imply that those who are celibate are closer to God than those who are having families? Doesn't that mean that God must want us all not to breed, and instead wants humanity to go extinct?

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They are following Christ.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Every branch of Christianity has married clergy
    Not exactly. Orthodox, Coptic, Nestorian etc. priests can only reach a specific rank in the hyerarchy as married priest. And can marry only BEFORE becoming priests
    If they want to reach the Bishop title, they need to take the monks oaths. IE celibacy.
    Usually they simply waited for their sons to be old enough to take care of the household and their mother, and then divorced to the wife to be allowed to obtain the bishop rank (usually they reached it when old and no longer interested in sex anyway)

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Inheritance reasons

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    because pope says so

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