On Sat, 04 May 2013 12:59:43 +1000
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dolf <
dolf...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Apostle Paul's view of Celibacy and The Way appears equivalent to
> the Dead Sea Scroll Community's abstinence in the Damascus Document.
>
<snip>
>
> Apostle Paul on wives and virgins: "There is difference also between a
> wife and a virgin. The unmarried {agamos-unmarried [G22]: #1, #3, #1,
> #40, #70, #10, #200 = #325} woman careth for the things of the Lord,
> that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married
> careth for the things of the world, *how she may please her husband*."
> [1Corinthians 7:34]
>
> That's right folks he's talking about sex and that marriage is concerned
> with things of the world and not Christ: "For do I now persuade men, or
> God? or do I seek to *please men*? for if I yet pleased men, I should
> not be the servant of Christ." [Galatians 1:10]
How does... *how she may please her husband* equate to sex?
Is there possibly another explaination?
You evidently don't have any idea of what the Christian mindset
was at that time.
Let me help you understand -- and then you'll see how far from
the mark we have drifted away...
QUOTE:
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Athenagoras (ca. 133-190) Christian apologist
CHAPTER XXXIII
Therefore, having the hope of eternal life,
we despise the things of this life, even
to the pleasures of the soul, each of us
reckoning her his wife whom he has married
according to the laws laid down by us, and
that only for the purpose of having children.
For as the husbandman throwing the seed into
the ground awaits the harvest, not sowing
more upon it, so to us the procreation of
children is the measure of our indulgence
in appetite. Nay, you would find many among
us, both men and women, growing old unmarried,
in hope of living in closer communion with
God. But if the remaining in virginity and
in the state of an eunuch brings nearer to
God, while the indulgence of carnal thought
and desire leads away from Him, in those
cases in which we shun the thoughts, much
more do we reject the deeds.
For we bestow our attention; not on the study of words,
but on the exhibition and teaching of actions,--that
a person should either remain as he was born,
or be content with one marriage; for a second
marriage is only a specious adultery. "For
whosoever puts away his wife," says He, "and
marries another, commits adultery;" not permitting
a man to send her away whose virginity he
has brought to an end, nor to marry again.
For he who deprives himself of his first
wife, even though she be dead, is a cloaked
adulterer, resisting the hand of God, because
in the beginning God made one man and one
woman, and dissolving the strictest union
of flesh with flesh, formed for the intercourse
of the race.
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