Dan Trabue, in our conversations on monastic life, offered that celibacy is un-Biblical. Huh?<\/p>\n
Explain then (1 Corinthians 7 ESV):<\/p>\n
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: \u201cIt is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.\u201d But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. <\/span>For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.<\/p>\n
Now as a concession, not a command, I say this. <\/span> <\/span>I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.<\/p>\n
To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. 9 <\/span>But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It seems to me the plain meaning of this is that St. Paul offers that unmarried devotion to Christ is preferred to marriage hence the “I wish all were as I myself am”, to whit unmarried and celibate (this chapter offers more support for that view as well).<\/p>\n
Secondly, for 1500+ years the Christian church always held that unmarried celibacy, such as the monastic life was a higher calling than marriage. Today, many Protestants reject this. Why? On what basis? I honestly have no idea what is the basis of that rejection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dan Trabue, in our conversations on monastic life, offered that celibacy is un-Biblical. Huh? Explain then (1 Corinthians 7 ESV): Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: \u201cIt is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.\u201d But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,58,62,33,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-christianity","category-marko","category-orthodox","category-protestantism","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}