To: bethelgrad
After his decision to follow Christ, Peter and his wife "became as brother and sister". That was the second model for pristly celibacy, after Christ himself.
157 posted on
01/05/2005 3:30:55 PM PST by
Luddite Patent Counsel
("No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the Legislature is in session.")
To: Luddite Patent Counsel
After his decision to follow Christ, Peter and his wife "became as brother and sister". That's apocryphal. Are you getting that from the Gospel of Thomas?
159 posted on
01/05/2005 3:36:37 PM PST by
sinkspur
("How dare you presume to tell God what He cannot do" God Himself)
To: Luddite Patent Counsel
What source are you relying on? Paul, in 1 Tim. 4:3, considered it part of the great apostasy to forbid marriage. That doesn't include voluntary singlness, which is commended. I can't find in scripture, or any other source close enough to the time that teaches that Peter stoped having relations with his wife.
182 posted on
01/06/2005 4:18:33 AM PST by
bethelgrad
(for God, country, the Marine Corps, and now the Navy Chaplain Corps OOH RAH!)
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