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Originally posted by Dback Jon This would seem to suggest that one can not be married and be an effective minister, but we know that is false. So is Paul wrong about this?
You are reading into it. All it says is that a married man's attention is divided between God and his wife.
Originally posted by Coyote Tony 1 Corinthians 7:32-35
And I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife, and he is divided. An unmarried woman and virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband. I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.
2 Tony 3:12-14
It's great when a minister has a wife so devoted to god and to her husband that not only allows him to minister but helps in in ministry and makes him better. But, it is also rare. I know a lot of marriages that have been ruined either through divorce or non-communication because the husband was a minister as well.
Never heard of the Book of Tony...interesting...kind of blasphemous...
Anyways, it's interesting that God has so much to say on children, fathers and monthers, yet he'd rather no one get married so they can focus on him.
If we aren't married, how do we procreate? I don't see that verse being specific to ministers only.
Originally posted by Chandler Mike
Never heard of the Book of Tony...interesting...kind of blasphemous...
what happen to lighten up? how can something so obvious as that be blasphemous?
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Originally posted by Chandler Mike
Anyways, it's interesting that God has so much to say on children, fathers and monthers, yet he'd rather no one get married so they can focus on him.
If we aren't married, how do we procreate? I don't see that verse being specific to ministers only.
Mike
You are taking things to the extreme and assuming things that are not in the scriptures. The scriptures are very clear. Marriage is not for everyone nor is being unmarried for everyone.
Originally posted by Coyote Tony 1 Corinthians 7:32-35
And I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife, and he is divided. An unmarried woman and virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband. I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.
2 Tony 3:12-14
It's great when a minister has a wife so devoted to god and to her husband that not only allows him to minister but helps in in ministry and makes him better. But, it is also rare. I know a lot of marriages that have been ruined either through divorce or non-communication because the husband was a minister as well.
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And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
19:31
And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
19:32
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
19:33
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
19:34
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
19:35
And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
19:36
Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
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Mr. Bible, Should we still be doing this?? I would think that it's okay since it happened in the Bible.
Originally posted by Chandler Mike How can one joke around about having their own book of the Bible when that same one says christians shouldn't joke about some things...
Wouldn't that be something not to joke about?
Mike
Is that really what I did? Is saying something like 2 Tony claiming that i have my own book in the Bible? Geez, get a life, Mike.
Originally posted by Coyote Tony Is that really what I did? Is saying something like 2 Tony claiming that i have my own book in the Bible? Geez, get a life, Mike.
Maybe you didn't, but I think everyone would agree here that it was pretty annoying
Tetris Champion!
what happen to lighten up? how can something so obvious as that be blasphemous? 
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