Etritonakin
Well-Known Member
...and you have every right to be incorrect.
I'm going to assume you are ribbin' me, though.
I'm going to assume you are ribbin' me, though.
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It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.
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+Xausted
Well-Known Member
but you are not seeking the divine! : )
Skwim
Veteran Member
And I haven't. I didn't disagree or discount anything he said.
As I read it, he didn't make the remark, but merely agreed with it.
Well, "simply" is no explanation, but if you're bailing here, so be it.
Skwim
Veteran Member
What's the verse? "Opinion" doesn't come up in my search.
Muffled
Jesus in me
I heartily agree with God on this. I don't see that it needs explanation. It appears to be an obvious truth.
paolops181
God rules!
1Cor.7:2-3 says,
"Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband."
Paul was teaching us that we should give more time in praying rather than pleasing ourselves always.
verse5,
"Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control. "
Paul wrote that not only in his own opinion but he has the spirit of God.
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chinu
chinu
CAN ANYBODY ANSWER THIS:
Is it good to Move towards South, if He/She wants to go towards North ?
_/\_Chinu.
Muffled
Jesus in me
All things from God are good.
Songbird
She rules her life like a bird in flight
I find several contradictions in Paul's writings, and I don't know if it's because he was trying to zealously be all things to all people and fudging a little on his accuracy, if letters attributed to Paul were authored by more than Paul alone, if in addressing different congregations' questions he very specifically gave answers intended for only those congregations (not foreseeing his letters being canonized as holy writ), or if we can't possibly understand something written in another language and culture from two thousand years ago regardless of the extent of scholarship on the matter. Sorry for the long sentence. Hell, few people understand my Facebook posts, and I only hope that scholars in 3020 will study massive tomes analyzing today's culture to figure them out.
I've heard there's a debate on Paul's different writing styles. He dictated some, maybe all, of his letters to scribes. I don't know enough about this area to know if scribes infused their own styles into writings, or if they took down writer's words verbatim. Angellous might know....
At any rate, the divine status of such disputed writing puzzles me.
tumbleweed41
Resident Liberal Hippie
My personal opinion is that Paul was repressing his homosexuality.
Perhaps that is why he attacked homosexual practices, but not homosexuals themselves.
And advocating celibacy protected him from what he considered to be his own failings.
Perhaps that is why he attacked homosexual practices, but not homosexuals themselves.
And advocating celibacy protected him from what he considered to be his own failings.
We are to crucify the flesh of its passions and desires, deny the flesh, and walk according to the spirit. Its not odd at all it goes with the theme of the NT.
Skwim
Veteran Member
- I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. (Isaiah 45:7, KJV)
Skwim
Veteran Member
From what I can tell, your reply is completely irrelevant.
So what should we then make of . . .gzusfrk said:
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it . . . ." (Genesis 1:28)
21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
21:12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
21:13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
(Deuteronomy 21: 11-13)
12:11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
(2 Samuel 12:11)
5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
(Proverbs 5:19)
3:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress,
(Hosea 3:1)
1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
(Romans 1:27)
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... sayin' stuff.....I make nothing of most of it, since I am a NT christian, most of what you have here is old law. Romans 10:4
Skwim
Veteran Member
"Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency"
(1 Corinthians 7:5)
As a husband or wife we are to help each other, to serve one another.
Skwim
Veteran Member
Oooo! Sassy is soo attractive.
Songbird
She rules her life like a bird in flight
That's right! Only those with truth-worthy avatars should be allowed into God's kingdom. The rest of all y'all will burn forever in the shame of your non-truth-worthiness, wishing you had but chosen the right truthful picture in an anonymous online forum, like Truth Hunter's avitar [sic], for example.