In our church meeting last night we were reading First Corinthians. It’s a long letter, and in one section the author, Paul, gives some advice about marriage. Some of what he says is a bit odd if for no other reason than its distant context. Sex, for example, was a common aspect of worship in the pagan temples of ancient Corinth. It was also an era of arranged marriages and betrothals, an era of high patriarchy, and an era in which slavery and indentured servitude were common and accepted. It was very different from modern, Western culture.
Still there is a …read more