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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
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Posted: Wed Aug  1 13:08:55 1984
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>[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