{"id":557,"date":"2019-07-27T14:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T19:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.org\/share\/?p=557"},"modified":"2019-07-27T14:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T19:49:27","slug":"priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God has instructions for Priests, in their choice of a wife.\u00a0 (So priests, in the Old Testament were allowed to marry).\u00a0 Some religions forbid priests to get married.\u00a0 That wasn&#8217;t God&#8217;s rules, but man&#8217;s rules, in their man-made religions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is what God said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>5 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>6 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the Name of their God: for the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>7 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>13\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And he shall take a wife in her virginity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>14\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>15<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.&#8221; <\/span>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/holiness-and-the-priests-leviticus-211-24-kjv\/#post-1494\">Holiness and the Priests &#8211; (Leviticus 21:1-24) KJV<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God has instructions for Priests, in their choice of a wife.\u00a0 (So priests, in the Old Testament were allowed to marry).\u00a0 Some religions forbid priests to get married.\u00a0 That wasn&#8217;t God&#8217;s rules, but man&#8217;s rules, in their man-made religions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}