Afterlife for muslim females
Reply #44 - February 28, 2015, 10:57 PM
justperusing, oh yeah Paul was very anti-marriage, because he seemed to believe the world was ending. He said that to stay single was the best thing you could do, and even if you get married, you should abstain from sex regularly for agreed upon periods of time, and that getting married was only slightly preferable than to "burn"--i.e., if you can't stop having sex, and you're going to go to hell, then get married, but you really should just learn to control yourself. But his attempts to decrease the importance and impact of earlier Biblical morality laws were slightly too successful, and in one community where he'd taught his little version of religion (Corinth), a man ended up marrying his own father's ex-wife (probably not his mother, as Paul doesn't say it's his mother, just his father's wife). Which sent him on a tirade about how he didn't mean that you should take it THAT far, because it makes the non-Christians look down on you as immoral, so you need to have at least the morality of them.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I have a sonic screwdriver, a tricorder, and a Type 2 phaser.