Another quote, and the reference escapes me now, finds the writer talking to memebers of the first century church, who having been those kind of people mentioned in I Cor 6:9; tells them to knock off the behavior now that they are christians.
The writer is of course Paul, and the passage should be considered in its context. Paul himself does seem to have been a rather repressive type, uncomfortable with sexuality of all kinds, but I shall not attempt to pyschoanalyze him here. Just as important: certainly one reason that Paul emphasized this sort of thing was that many of the first century mystery cults, of which Christianity was only one, were known for their, let us say, sexually liberal views. Paul, as the then Chief Propagator of the Faith, felt that Christianity would never be widely accepted, nor would it survive, if it couldn't in the public eye distinguish itself from other similar sects. And so he asked Christians to set an example of prudent and respectable behavior. |
