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  • From: "polymath" <polymath AT optusnet.com.au>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Paul a dualist?
  • Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 11:42:30 +1000


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> Subject: Re: Paul and =?iso-8859-1?q?homosexuality=3F?=
> From: <Stephen.Finlan AT durham.ac.uk>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 22:25:57 +0100
> X-Message-Number: 7
>
> 7:24 Who will deliver me from this body of death?
>
> 8:3 ...sinful flesh...
>
> 8:6 to set the mind on the flesh is death.
>
>
> Despite his very reasonable advice in 1 Cor 7, Paul's
> own attitude about sexuality is quite dualistic,
> and passion is bad.
>
> Stephen Finlan
> University of Durham

Hmmm, when he says flesh he uses sarks , 7.24 he uses swma. If Paul was so
dualistic though, why say in 12.1 to offer their swmata as a living
sacrifice as our spiritual/reasonable (logikos) worship? Wouldn't swmata
include our sexual natures? If he was dualistic, how can he use swmata,
technical cultic language, and greek philosophical terms all in one context?

Mick Pope
B.Theol student, lay preacher, etc




  • Paul a dualist?, polymath, 06/15/2002

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