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Originally Posted by Pilgrim This seems simple enough to us but unfortunately there are many who cannot or will not accept it and insist that a man must be married. More commonly you hear the more pragmatic refrain "well how can he relate if he's single and/or doesn't have children." | I've heard that same argument used many times against the Roman priesthood.
Was Paul an elder, or was elder an automatic subclass of apostle? |
I haven't seen it argued recently but I think the usual argument asserts that Jesus and Paul were not ordinary church officers. But in one of his epistles IIRC Peter (who was married) refers to himself as an elder.