Excerpted from “Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism”
Nothing about Paul was actually modest. He had been tightly attracted, passionately mental, full of huge thoughts of self-negativity, looking to handle those attitude within the timehonored way of outside settings, unflagging religious zeal, and rigid control. He couldn’t, but master the interests that used him.
What had been these interests? Researching once more through documents of Paul, some results start to emerge that startle and amaze the reader. Paul’s passions appeared to be incapable of being relieved. Why got that? Paul himself wrote when one “would never training self-control” that person should marry. “because of it is most effective to wed than to getting aflame with passion” (1 Cor. 7:9). Continue reading “There is no question within my mind which they were intimate in nature, but what style of sexual interests had been they?”