[OLD REGGIE]

1 Corinthians 7:

1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman.

2 But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

4 For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.

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That darned Paul. He always was a troublemaker.

[SoothingDave]

The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

4 For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.

I'm confused. Is this a mandate to have sex or else a marriage isn't valid? Does this speak to normal Christian marriages? Does it preclude a couple doing without sex, by mutual agreement? Wouldn't Paul have found that even better?

SD

[RobbyS]

Was Paul talking about the relationship between Joseph and Mary? I can't recall he ever said a word about either. In short, this is irrelevant

[OLD REGGIE]

Let me correct myself before I am picked up on it. No sooner than I had posted 1 Corinthians 7:1-4 I realized it was too easy, too pat. Alas, I had made the same mistake I accuse my RC friends of making. I posted something incomplete and totally out of context.

1 Corinthians 7:6

6 I say this by way of concession, not of command.

This completely invalidates 1 Corinthians 7: as an argument to disprove Perpetual Virginity. There are plenty more, however. Mea Culpa.