Paul was encouraging marriage to control the desires. Marriage started at around 16, just before the peak of the hormones..
“Paul was encouraging marriage to control the desires. Marriage started at around 16, just before the peak of the hormones.”
yeah that sounds logical but there were a lot of unmarried people also is the thing it wasn’t a rule that they got married at any certain age . I agree though one of ouls
Many points is if one is consumed with lust or the idea hat they want marriage they should get married so they aren’t piñon go way and conmiting forrnication
“Today the church wants you to control the hormones. That does not happen. Try telling a teen not to think of sex. They will laugh at you”
yeah the same could be said of anyone less than probably 45 I’d say or most anyways 30 year olds who are married still burn with lust and commit affairs
but again my point is that Paul is not talking about anyones age in any way in that whole chapter it’s about marriage and non marriage.
Paul is t saying marriage is bad or good me people are called to be married in the lord he had thier spise selected before the world
Began and others he has a different plan for thier life they may never fit into a marriage in Gods Will
Paul is giving practical advice to Christian’s regarding marriage he makes several points but age isn’t one of them eas my only point I’m not sure it has anything to do with age it has to do with marriage inside the church
I’m sure some were telling others “ of your not married your not blessed or complete and others were probably saying marria he is a hindrance to faith “
mostly oaulsmletters are sent to correct thinking in the churches about things they argued about and didn’t understand
just the text itself really makes what he’s saying perfectly clear it’s just a matter of whether we can hear it and accept what he’s saying
See that had actually written to Paul and asked him to clarify this issue the chapter starts like this
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Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”
1 Corinthians 7:1 KJV
He’s answering a letter from them over issues they were conflicted about his answer is what follows to the end there of the chapter
“Nevertheless,
to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
1 Corinthians 7:2
He then instructs that married couples shouldt deny the others marital wants and needs only during a
Mutual time of prayer thoroughbred e next few verses then he continues and touches on other points regarding his answer
He then explains what if one is an unbeliever and thoer spouse isn’t ? He explains that then moves on to other points
“Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; and they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: but he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.”
1 Corinthians 7:20, 29-35
and so on Paul’s covering questions they had that were becoming issues within the group but yeah probably they married younger I assume also I’m not saying your wrong just that isn’t what any of the scripture there is about