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Does 1 Timothy 4:3 (They Forbid to Marry & Abstain from Meats) Refer to Catholics?
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Some Protestants cite 1 Timothy 4:1-5 in an attempt to refute Catholic teaching. They incorrectly claim that it identifies the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church as “doctrines of devils”. However, they have totally misunderstood the passage. It doesn’t in any way refer to Catholic teaching or to the disciplinary laws of the Catholic Church.
There is a definite meaning of this passage in 1 Timothy 4. It refers to the various dualist sects throughout Christian history. Examples of these were the Gnostics, the Manicheans, the Cathars, etc. They believed in two gods: one evil and one good. According to them, the evil god was the god of matter, and the good god was the god of the spirit. They developed a theology that was destructive to any use of material things, to a greater or lesser degree depending upon the sect and their zeal for it. Hence, they forbade marriage, abstained from meats, and preached poverty (for they held that ownership of material things was evil). The most devoted would even kill themselves to put an end to their material existence. There’s no doubt that the passage refers to dualists, as a study of Christian history will confirm.
The Catholic Church, on the other hand, does not forbid marriage. Marriage is one of the seven sacraments. The Church also doesn’t forbid eating meat (except on Fridays and on certain days of the year out of devotion to the Lord). In fact, the Council of Florence declared that “no food, which society admits, is to be condemned”.
The dualist heretics, on the other hand, who did forbid marriage and abstain from meats, popped up again and again. They became such a problem in the Middle Ages that the war against Cathar-dualist heretics in 1208 was called a crusade by Pope Innocent III (Carroll, A History of Christendom, Vol. 3, p. 175.). Thus, the passage is not at all referring to Catholic teaching or practices. Of course, the Catholic Church’s teaching that the celibate state is, in itself, superior to the married state (a truth reflected in the discipline of clerical celibacy) is the teaching of the Bible itself. See this file:
It’s also the teaching of the fathers of the Christian Church. In fact, Protestantism’s rejection of the biblical and patristic teaching on celibacy is another proof that it’s not true Christianity. In 1 Cor. 7, St. Paul clearly teaches that the celibate state is superior to the married state, thus providing a powerful refutation of the Protestants’ denial of this truth.
As these facts show, the Protestants’ assertion that 1 Timothy 4:1-5 refers to Catholic teaching is completely wrong. It’s another example of how they misuse and twist Scripture to their destruction.
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