"good" or "better"
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HJBLUEBIRD at aol.com
Thu Jun 27 12:42:48 EDT 2002
Harry Jones:
Ward posted:
Dear Iver and Dale,
At 09:42 PM 020625 +0200, Iver Larsen wrote:
>Dale Wheeler has suggested a compromise position below that I am quite happy
>to accept.
>I agree that Paul is correcting two wrong extremes held by some in Corinth:
>1) Total freedom (including both what to eat and what to do in general with
>the body) 6:12ff
>2) Total sexual abstinence, even within marriage (7:1ff)
>
>However, I am still wondering whether we don't have a 3-step development:
>
>1a) Paul said in his original teaching: "You am free from the Jewish law"
>1b) Some Corinthians said after he left: "We are free to do whatever we
>like".
>1c) Paul now writes: "Hey, wait a minute, you are taking it to an extreme I
>did not intend and which is wrong."
>(Paul anticipates the 1b) possibility in Romans 6.)
>
>2a) Paul said: "It is commendable to live a celibate life for various
>reasons as I do"
>2b) Some Corinthians said: "Everybody must live a life of sexual abstinence
>to be real spiritual"
>2c) Paul now says: "Hey, wait a minute, you are taking it to an extreme I
>did not intend and which is wrong."
>
>Sometimes Paul seems to restate his original position and clarify where the
>Corinthians have taken it to a wrong extreme. Sometimes he seems to quote
>their misapplication of his original statement.
This could be so. Though I would wish to leave room for seeing 1 Cor 7:1b
as originating with the Corinthians rather than with Paul.
Harry: Ward, if KALON ANQRWPWi GUNAIKOS MH hAPTESQAI is a quotation
of what the Corinthians were saying then why isn't introduced as indirect
discourse with hOTI ?
Harry: Just curious.
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