This is in reply to one of your questions in your 4/20 post in the latter times? in regard to 1 Timothy 4:1-3 below:
I Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
"I considered that the catholic church would not allow their priests and nuns to marry, and that meat on Friday was considered a sin (but they later shortened it to only during Lent).""However, that was set up during the dark ages, but Paul mentioned that the Spirit spoke expressly that it would be in the latter times.So, if we are in the latter times, and long past the dark ages, that perhaps in our time, could these lines have any other possible explanation?i.e. instead of the church forbidding some people to marry, could it be describing people in churches, that refuse to get married, but instead will only live with somebody?"
Regardless of when the Catholic church set up the prohibition in the dark ages against eating meat, now in 2025 in the latter times we are living in the Catholic church still forbids their Catholic priests to marry and for Catholics to abstain from eating meat on all the Fridays of Lent which includes Ash Wed. when Lent begins & on Good Friday which is the day after Lent ends on Holy Thursday. So I don't think that there is a different explanation for 1 Timothy 4:1-3. The Catholic church doesn't want homosexuals living together to marry so they would forbid them to marry because homosexuality is a sin.
"The first written mandate requiring priests to be chaste came in AD 304. Canon 33 of the Council of Elvira stated that all "bishops, presbyters, and deacons and all other clerics" were to "abstain completely from their wives and not to have children."
"The Church was a thousand years old before it definitively took a stand in favor of celibacy in the twelfth century at the Second Lateran Council held in 1139, when a rule was approved forbidding priests to marry. In 1563, the Council of Trent reaffirmed the tradition of celibacy." FULL STORY at above link.