Pauls teaching
Lisa smith
PHL2000-Encounting Ethics
Paul’s Teaching on Love, Sex, and Marriage
After reading Paul’s teaching on love, sex, and marriage I kind of felt like Paul was against marriage. Paul even stated that he would love it if all man were single like him, and he also told woman to remain unmarried. Paul believes that you should only marry for sexual desires so you don’t commit fornication. Paul talks not only about sex and marriage but he also talks about divorce, sexual immorality, and spiritual gifts.
In Paul’s first letter he wrote that you must have nothing to do with those who are sexually immoral. It wasn’t meant for people in general but meant for the so called Christian who leads an immoral life or is extortionately, idolatrous, a slander a drunkard, or a swindler. Paul said it’s not his business to judge outsides because God is their judge, but within the fellowship you are the judge (The western world Pg.132). when Paul talks about sexually immoral I took as if he was trying to make a point in not being influenced by hypocrisy.
Paul thinks it’s a good thing for a man not to have intercourse with a woman, rather, in the face of so much immorality, let each man have their own wife and each woman have her own husband. To the unmarried and the widows, he think they should stay like that. He said it’s good to stay like that but if they have no self-control, they should marry (The western world Pg.133). I think Paul simply tells people to stay unmarried if they are, so they can stay more focus on the Lord but then he says marry to have sex and so you won’t be committing fornication. Paul also talks about divorce, and the main thing he points out is that he want people to be free from anxious care. An unmarried man and woman are concerned with the Lord’s business, and his and her aim is to please the lord, but if he or she is married they’ll be more concerned with worldly affairs, and his or her aim is to please his
PHL2000-Encounting Ethics
Paul’s Teaching on Love, Sex, and Marriage
After reading Paul’s teaching on love, sex, and marriage I kind of felt like Paul was against marriage. Paul even stated that he would love it if all man were single like him, and he also told woman to remain unmarried. Paul believes that you should only marry for sexual desires so you don’t commit fornication. Paul talks not only about sex and marriage but he also talks about divorce, sexual immorality, and spiritual gifts.
In Paul’s first letter he wrote that you must have nothing to do with those who are sexually immoral. It wasn’t meant for people in general but meant for the so called Christian who leads an immoral life or is extortionately, idolatrous, a slander a drunkard, or a swindler. Paul said it’s not his business to judge outsides because God is their judge, but within the fellowship you are the judge (The western world Pg.132). when Paul talks about sexually immoral I took as if he was trying to make a point in not being influenced by hypocrisy.
Paul thinks it’s a good thing for a man not to have intercourse with a woman, rather, in the face of so much immorality, let each man have their own wife and each woman have her own husband. To the unmarried and the widows, he think they should stay like that. He said it’s good to stay like that but if they have no self-control, they should marry (The western world Pg.133). I think Paul simply tells people to stay unmarried if they are, so they can stay more focus on the Lord but then he says marry to have sex and so you won’t be committing fornication. Paul also talks about divorce, and the main thing he points out is that he want people to be free from anxious care. An unmarried man and woman are concerned with the Lord’s business, and his and her aim is to please the lord, but if he or she is married they’ll be more concerned with worldly affairs, and his or her aim is to please his