Qualification for Deacon/Pastor

Paul wasn't a pastor or deacon, so the requirements didn't apply to him.

 

Paul states that if an unbelieving spouse leaves a believer, they are under no bondage: remarriage would be permitted in such cases.

Therefore, in the case of the aforementioned man whose wife left him because he was going into the ministry, it would b permissible for him to remarry.

 

Paul

I think you miss my point. Actually I'd call him a traveling preacher, though I do not believe they used that term back then. Is there a Greek phrase that means 'traveling preacher?'

My point was that if we use his words with a very strick interpretation he would not meet the requirements to be a deacon in fundamentalists churches. Kind of strange isn't it?
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The Bible defines what this means 2 chapters later

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man1Ti 5:9

It is only one for life. A pastor or Deacon cannot be divorced.

Ehud

 

I am amazed how all of the threads I read run away from the scripture.

"the husband of one wife" Paul told both Timothy and Titus this.

I do believe that he meant the husband of one wife at a time. And this is exactly the argument that my father used to justify his being a deacon even though he is married to his third wife. So after I SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES I found that I must first have a good understanding of what God means when he says Marriage.

Matt. 19, Mark 10, Gen 2:24
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife and they twain shall be one flesh NO LONGER TWO BUT ONE FLESH therefore what God hath joined together let not man put usunder"

Based upon the scriptures I think that Dad has three wives just as if he were married to them all at one time. Therefore he is disqualified.

The problem is that we get our fanny up on our shoulders because we want the position rather than the opportunity to serve.

Gods Word says what it says and it's not about the position. Some of the people that have won the most people to Christ and will have great reward in heaven are people who are disqualified from those two positions and didn't get their panties in a wad they just got to work about the fathers business.

Blameless is a different subject altogether.

:tonofbricks:

 

What if the literal translation of the passage is not "husband of one wife", but "one woman man".

How does that affect the discussion?