RE: The Jesus Freaks Will Hate This
February 27, 2015 at 5:44 pm
(This post was last modified: February 27, 2015 at 5:48 pm by Nope.)
(February 27, 2015 at 5:28 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(February 27, 2015 at 5:14 pm)Nope Wrote: Paul was not married when he wrote his portion of the epistles but we don't know if he was always single. He might have had a wife at some point.
More insinuations...
Quote:1 Corinthians 7
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
You realize the reason Paul no longer continued to write letters is because he was BEHEADED right?
So no, Paul never married.
Yes, I realize that Paul was beheaded.
Nothing in the verses you quote in Corinthians says that Paul didn't once have a wife.
I honestly don't understand why a formerly married Paul or Jesus should be such a big deal among Christians.
http://www.dennyburk.com/was-the-apostle-paul-married/
Here is a site that suggest that Paul might have been married.
Quote:The cumulative case, therefore, strongly suggests that Paul was a widower. He was once married. But in calling him to Christ, God gave Paul the gift of celibacy (“a genuine gift of freedom from sexual need,” Fee, 287). Paul desires for everyone with this gift to use it as he has for the sake of the kingdom.