Quote: (06-03-2015 01:47 AM)Samseau Wrote:
Again, pornia means whoring and so does fornication.
What St. Paul said was to marry instead of using whores. However, we also know from the Old Testament that it was a sin to marry a non-virginal woman.
A whore was any single woman willing to have sex outside marriage. The injunction to marry was motivated partly by the idea that women were to be protected as sisters (Golden Rule, ring any bells?), not seduced into being (paid or unpaid) whores.
Your reading has no support in the Christian tradition, and to refute me on the specifics of the porneia/whoredom reading, which is what it comes down to, you will need to dig into the original Greek and get some substantial scholarly citations on your side. I admit I'm not doing the work to do that right now, but it's your crusade, not mine, as I'm not even a Christian.
Also, only Protestant churches will buy your argument that "the Bible doesn't prohibit it". The Catholic and Orthodox churches give weight to their 2000 years of lived tradition, as well as Scripture, so that's what you are going up against. You say that they have allowed error to creep in, which you still need to establish, but aren't they guided by the Holy Spirit?
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