Wrong! The correct answer is: "I wish everyone were single like me."
As author Ruth Green put it, the "Christian family" is a "Christian fantasy." Paul's belief that "it is good for a man not to touch a woman" (I Corinthians 7:1) led to the doctrine of celibacy and other warped teachings on sexuality. Nineteenth-century feminist author Matilda Joslyn Gage pointed out that this teaching directly led to such woman-hating abuses as the witch hunts.
"For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I." (I Corinthians 7:7-8)
"Celibacy is a pagan practice." Wrong answer. Paul seemed to acknowledge that some Christian men below the rank of Bishop or Elder had more than one wife: "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife." (I Timothy 3:2) "Ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children." (Titus 1:5-6) But he did not prohibit or permit polygamy.
"Elders and deacons may have more than one wife." Wrong answer.
"If your feelings are only sexual, then don't get married." Wrong answer. On the contrary! According to Paul, if you can't contain your sexual urges, you are better off getting married: "I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn." (I Corinthians 7:8-9) Is this what parents should teach their children?
Correct! "I wish everyone were single like me."
As author Ruth Green put it, the "Christian family" is a "Christian fantasy." Paul's belief that "it is good for a man not to touch a woman" (I Corinthians 7:1) led to the doctrine of celibacy and other warped teachings on sexuality. Nineteenth-century feminist author Matilda Joslyn Gage pointed out that this teaching directly led to such woman-hating abuses as the witch hunts.
"For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I." (I Corinthians 7:7-8)
"Celibacy is a pagan practice." Wrong answer. Paul seemed to acknowledge that some Christian men below the rank of Bishop or Elder had more than one wife: "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife." (I Timothy 3:2) "Ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children." (Titus 1:5-6) But he did not prohibit or permit polygamy.
"Elders and deacons may have more than one wife." Wrong answer.
"If your feelings are only sexual, then don't get married." Wrong answer. On the contrary! According to Paul, if you can't contain your sexual urges, you are better off getting married: "I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn." (I Corinthians 7:8-9) Is this what parents should teach their children?
