[The Beast1]

(05-22-2016 01:57 AM)N°6 Wrote:  

1 Corinthians 7:8 Wrote:

Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.

However forbidding someone to marry is another matter:

1 Timothy 4:2-3 Wrote:

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.

You need to quote the whole passage to get the meaning:

Quote:

Now to the unmarried[a] and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. 9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion

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Paul is saying if you're going to be unmarried it is best to remain sexually abstinate. If you want sex then get married because it's better to be married than burn in lust. I don't think any of us here prefer that.

I do understand EDantes' argument in its spirit (yuk yuk yuk). I've got into an argument with an evangelical pastor in the past pushing this stuff and essentially told them women need to hold up their end of the bargain in Corinthains which they don't

Partly the reason i was "held at arms length" was because I killed the argument by saying "if I need to man up, women need to woman down and get back in the kitchen."