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- From: <Stephen.Finlan AT durham.ac.uk>
- To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Paul and homosexuality?
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 22:25:57 +0100
-to Jim Miller. A negative view of sex is also
present in the NT. Asceticism, and reasons for it,
were very important to Paul, who can be called a
"model ascetic" (Roetzel), as we see in Romans:
6:6 ... so that the sinful body might be destroyed
6:12 [don't] obey its passions
7:5 our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were
at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
7:8 sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought
in me all kinds of covetousness.
[Probably it is the commandment to "be fruitful"
that accidentally (?) stimulated sinful sexual desire,
hence the repeated mention of how it was "through
the commandment" (7:13) that sin, like a Trojan horse,
penetrated our defenses and seduced us into sinning]
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
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Re: Paul and homosexuality?,
MillerJimE, 06/14/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Paul and homosexuality?, Stephen.Finlan, 06/14/2002
- Re: Paul and homosexuality?, Perry L Stepp, 06/14/2002
- Re: Paul and homosexuality?, Bob MacDonald, 06/15/2002
- Re: Paul and homosexuality?, Stephen.Finlan, 06/16/2002
- Re: Paul and homosexuality?, Stephen.Finlan, 06/16/2002
- Re: Paul and homosexuality?, Bob MacDonald, 06/16/2002
- Re: Paul and homosexuality?, Stephen.Finlan, 06/17/2002
- Re: Paul and homosexuality?, Bob MacDonald, 06/18/2002
- Re: Paul and homosexuality?, Stephen.Finlan, 06/18/2002
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