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NASB | 1 Timothy 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 3:2 Now an overseer must be blameless and beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
Bible Question (short): Can you be a husband without marriage? |
Question (full): Please excuse me I’m not trying to be argumentative. If God was conveying the idea, as many suggest, that elder must have sexual purity or at least the lack of immorality, don’t you think He would have said that? God has no problem conveying the idea of sexual purity in Revelation chapter 21 for instance. Instead the scriptures say he should be the husband of one wife. Again not wanting to split hairs how does one become the husband of a woman without marriage? See what has happened? In an effort to explain God we really have changed what he said. I think there are two qualifications here, one the man is to be a husband. Two he is to have sexual purity in his marriage. I know most people disagree with this, and we have men and women filling the position that are single, married, divorced, remarried, and etc. Again can I submit a point for thought, could this be the reason the church today doesn’t hold the place it once did? Is the church sending the wrong message to the world? Has the church suggested that compromise is okay? As to the example using the money issue. I know many poor people or people without money that are lovers of money. But I don’t know any husbands without wives. Please excuse the sarcasm but I hope it would make you think. |