[NYer]

Paul's words must be taken in the context of all the instruction given by Jesus and the other Apostles on the subject of marriage. They have to fit together. And saying that Paul is teaching that not being married is better than being married contradicts pretty much the whole Bible.

Are you suggesting that celibacy is unbiblical, or even unnatural? That every man must obey the biblical injunction to "Be fruitful and multiply" (Gen. 1:28); and that Paul commands that "each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband" (1 Cor. 7:2).

[MeOnTheBeach]

Are you suggesting that celibacy is unbiblical, or even unnatural? That every man must obey the biblical injunction to "Be fruitful and multiply" (Gen. 1:28); and that Paul commands that "each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband" (1 Cor. 7:2).

I'm saying that the doctrine of forbidding people, any people to marry, is not only unbiblical, it is literally instituted by the devil.(1 Tim. 4:1)

1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,

The faith spoken of is Paul's faith or "Christianity". The time frame is the "latter times" or the last days.

How many churches in our time (or anytime), call themselves "Christian" and have any doctrine of forbidding to marry? Who else could Paul be seeing in his vision?