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To: A.A. Cunningham

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1 2 3 Now in regard to the matters about which you wrote: "It is a good thing for a man not to touch a woman,"
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but because of cases of immorality every man should have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.
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The husband should fulfill his duty toward his wife, and likewise the wife toward her husband.
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A wife does not have authority over her own body, but rather her husband, and similarly a husband does not have authority over his own body, but rather his wife.
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Do not deprive each other, except perhaps by mutual consent for a time, to be free for prayer, but then return to one another, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control."

You would figure the Roman church would have taken that statement by Paul to heart given they've seen quite explicitly what happens when you leave the door open to Satan.


33 posted on 10/13/2005 12:09:05 PM PDT by x5452
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To: x5452
St. Paul refutes your out of context cherry picking of his First Epistle to the Corinthians.

"For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath his proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after that. But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I." 1 Corinthians 7:7-8

"But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may please God. But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world: how she may please her husband. And this I speak for your profit, not to cast a snare upon you, but for that which is decent and which may give you power to attend upon the Lord, without impediment." 1 Corinthians 7:32-35

You would figure the Roman church would have taken that statement by Paul to heart given they've seen quite explicitly what happens when you leave the door open to Satan.

As opposed to all of those Protestant denominations, who choose to reject the teachings of Christ and St. Paul on the discipline of celibacy and allow their clergy to marry, right?

Sexual Abuse of Children by Protestant Ministers

36 posted on 10/13/2005 12:17:52 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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