ok my sester arabic help me
What I meant by my question is: I find it surprising to know that priests consdier themselves far above having wives and children -which implies that it is a degrading "feature"- while you claim that Jesus is the son of God.
This is a big contradiction.
Thank you for your question, M.
I will try to keep my answer easy to understand.
In Islam, as in Christianity, purity of life is important. About a thousand years ago, the church decided that our priests should live pure lives, and not marry. This is not because they are above having wives and children, but because we regard priests, monks and nuns as married to Christ and his church, and all people in the church as their children. That is why we call some nuns 'mother', others 'sister', monks 'brother' and priests 'father'.
This does not mean that sexual relations are bad or evil, but, as in Islam and Judaism, they are holy, and ideally to be kept within marriage. So, for those who marry the church in this way, sexual relations are not possible, because that would be unholy.
The birth of Our Lord happened because the Holy Spirit of God overshadowed Mary, and she conceived. There was no sexual union involved, and so Our Lord was born to a virgin. Many Christians believe she lived her whole life as a virgin, and so women who become nuns are following her example in choosing a pure life. As indeed are priests.
Some of this may sound strange to a Moslem, and I know many Moslems are offended by the thought of God having a Son, and think it insults Him. But consider this; if you call a Moslem 'sister' or 'brother', do you insult your mother or theirs, in the process? No more is God insulted by being addressed as Father by a Christian. This is about spiritual relationship, not about carnal relations.
Christ called God Father, and said that, by believing in Him, we could do the same. This is the great privilege that Christians have, that no other faith has, or can have. It is certainly not intended in any way as an insult to God, but rather as a statement of our loyalty to, and relationship with, Christ himself.
Today many churches do allow priests to marry, because this ruling has changed for most of us. The Roman Catholic church still has priests who cannot marry, and bishops in the Orthodox church must be unmarried, but other churches allow their leaders to have wives and children.
