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Originally posted by Abigail View PostWhag if you look at the context of the early Church, they needed evangelists to get the message out and this would involve traveling and also dangers like prison and even death since Christians were not well received in places. I think this was Paul's way of encouraging single people to be evangelists. It is not impossible to be married and an evangelist but it is more difficult since you will have more things to distract you ie if you have a family you need regular income to support them etc.
Devotion to Jesus is no less halved by the marital decision than it was back then. I see no reason why the same reasoning doesn't apply to Christians today, unless you really think Paul's letter was merely meant to be a snapshot of history to Christian readers with absolutely no applicability today.
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Originally posted by whag View Post...People will soon marry their dogs...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...il-spirit.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21768663/n...dog-atonement/That's what
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Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
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I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
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Originally posted by whag View Post7 Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”.Last edited by 37818; 07-16-2015, 02:10 PM.. . . the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; . . . -- Romans 1:16 KJV
. . . that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: . . . -- 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 KJV
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: . . . -- 1 John 5:1 KJV
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Interesting that two of those stories involve theists.
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Originally posted by 37818 View PostThat is not what the text says. What it really says, “It is good for a man not to touch a woman." Which some Corinthians interpreted the saying to not have sexual relations with even their own wives. Paul was setting the meaning straight.
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37818 is on to something here. In 1 Corinthians, on many occasions, Paul was directly quoting the Corinthians letter to him, and answering questions or sometimes even refuting what was said. He was basically doing something akin to using the quote section of this forum.
There are a couple occasions where it is not entirely clear what exactly was being quoted and what were Paul's own words as there were no quotation marks in that language."I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by whag View PostUm....no. Paul was saying much more than that.Last edited by 37818; 07-16-2015, 03:56 PM.. . . the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; . . . -- Romans 1:16 KJV
. . . that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: . . . -- 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 KJV
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: . . . -- 1 John 5:1 KJV
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post37818 is on to something here. In 1 Corinthians, on many occasions, Paul was directly quoting the Corinthians letter to him, and answering questions or sometimes even refuting what was said. He was basically doing something akin to using the quote section of this forum.
There are a couple occasions where it is not entirely clear what exactly was being quoted and what were Paul's own words as there were no quotation marks in that language.
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post37818 is on to something here. In 1 Corinthians, on many occasions, Paul was directly quoting the Corinthians letter to him, and answering questions or sometimes even refuting what was said. He was basically doing something akin to using the quote section of this forum.
There are a couple occasions where it is not entirely clear what exactly was being quoted and what were Paul's own words as there were no quotation marks in that language.
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Paul has two versions of human sexuality that he approves of. One is celibacy with abstinence;the other is sexual activity in the context of a marriage to a single person. Everything else is a sin,which is consistent with the rest of the New Testament teaching on the subject.Read my other blog posts at http://reasonablefaithknoxville.org
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Originally posted by djbrock View PostPaul has two versions of human sexuality that he approves of. One is celibacy with abstinence;the other is sexual activity in the context of a marriage to a single person. Everything else is a sin,which is consistent with the rest of the New Testament teaching on the subject.
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