Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Pharisees and Marriage Message-ID: <185@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 13:08:55 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.185 Posted: Wed Aug 1 13:08:55 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Aug-84 02:31:36 EDT Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 30 >[Rich Rosen] > I've always thought it rather ironic that the sexuality of the western world > was defined by someone who apparently chose asexuality. If Paul had chosen > a different sexual path in life, how different the western world might have > been... >[seifert (Snoopy)] > Paul was perfectly happy being single. Being single allowed him > to devote his time and energy to the Lord. He felt that if you > are married you be devoting much of your time and energy to pleasing > your spouse. I suspect this may be the only thing he "had against" > marriage. (Anyone know for sure?) Not everyone has the gift of > being happy as a single. Those people should get married. (The > rest of 1 Cor 7 goes into this) My understanding is that, to be a Pharisee, you had to have been married. This would imply that Paul, a Pharisee, was, at least at one point, a married man. Is my information incorrect? If so, at least two conclusions may be drawn: (i) Paul didn't exactly "choose" asexuality or to be single, as one is not always able to control when one's spouse will die. (ii) Paul was not just spouting off about things he had no conception of; he had seen it from both sides. -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois And he is before all things, and by him all things consist... Colossians 1:17