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To: JCBreckenridge

What is there to reconcile? I can see no conflict.

In 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 (from which you quoted an excerpt), Paul is not speaking to married people:

“But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn.”

Verses 32 and following give an explanation of his point. And verses 26-27 sheds some light on the circumstances of the times:

“I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress - that it is good for a man to remain as he is: Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.”


34 posted on 01/29/2013 7:17:36 AM PST by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: LearsFool

So how do you get ‘marriage is a requirement for bishops’? Out of that. It’s not and never has been.


44 posted on 01/29/2013 1:57:22 PM PST by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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