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Return to stoning prostitutes then?
And the customers as well?
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Return to stoning prostitutes then?IRRELEVANT.
We should not look to some culture's norm, either now or then.
I gave you NO definition of evil except that it requires hatred.
THEE touch:
Would not the touch of real kissing be more enticing than only seeing from a distance?
So how do we explain that St. Paul recommended kissing and did not say anything about not looking at anybody?
I.e., what does I Thess. 5:26 mean for Mt. 5:28 ?
So hating evil, like Scripture enjoins, is not even possible?Evil is separation from God. There is no indication that hatred is required.
Hatred is actually closer to love. You hate that you can't control those you
love or their situations. Apathy is closer to evil.
Lol yeah remember those whisker full expressions of friendship. Trust me I was not looking.Males in the Middle East greet each other with kisses every day.
Everyone else in the last two thousand years has known that.
There is no amount of Clorox which can erase this.When you kiss your mom, are you lusting after her in your heart?
So hating evil, like Scripture enjoins, is not even possible?
Could be all evil is based on "separation from God," in that if one is very close to God one would not be involved in evil. But many things are pointed to as evil without any reference to God.
Quote you, or quote Scripture?Please quote me on a specific challenge.
Because of the separation from God I propose.
To "return" to doing something in the manner of a very foreign culture is to look to some (other) cultures norm, what I specifically said we should not do.Return to stoning prostitutes then?
And the customers as well?
It's not irrelevant, when it's St. Paul's own culture.IRRELEVANT.
We should not look to some culture's norm, either now or then.
THEE touch:
Would not the touch of real kissing be more enticing than only seeing from a distance?
So how do we explain that St. Paul recommended kissing and did not say anything about not looking at anybody?
I.e., what does I Thess. 5:26 mean for Mt. 5:28 ?
We should not look to some culture's norm, either now or then.
It's not irrelevant, when it's St. Paul's own culture.
Then you do not understand how to explain (exegete) scripture at all, if you demand that cultural context must be ignored. Or do you demand that we go out and stone all homosexuals and adulterers in our culture today since you claim cultural context must not be applied? That is what you are implying.
Cultural and historical context matters. The "holy kiss" referred to in 1 Thessalonians 5:26 was a cultural greeting of the time, much like a handshake in the west expresses a greeting today. There was absolutely nothing sexual about it, nor was it intended to cause sexual arousal. Matthew 5:28 is referring to sexual lust, not just a mere greeting. So the two passages are not comparable in the sense you are implying.
So you think in his time everybody was concerned to be holy and therefor they all holy kissed?
If Scripture just referred to, "greet everyone with a kiss," then you might be correct. If it was a mere greeting.
Maybe it was, maybe not.
In the context, Paul is addressing believers/Christians. So no, Christians are not called to greet unbelievers with a "holy kiss". By God's grace and the work of the Holy Spirit, I will greet an unbeliever with kindness and grace and respect, but I most certainly will greet a brother in Christ with far more connection and love than I would with an unbeliever.
As mentioned, Paul was addressing believers, not unbelievers.
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