by admin | Jul 31, 2017 | Section Four, Sexual Immorality
Though I’m eager to dive into the word study, I’m compelled to spend some time keeping my promise to reveal my own position and velocity. It will make this essay considerably, but necessarily, longer than I like. The Greek words translated sexual immorality in the...
by admin | Nov 18, 2016 | Section Three, Sexual Immorality
The exercise of revisiting Paul’s Religious Mind and the meaning of Sexual Immorality has clarified a few things that were right in front of me all along. I considered again the list of sins that described the former lives of some who were called to faith in Corinth:...
by admin | Oct 10, 2016 | Section Three, Sexual Immorality
I want to look more closely at Kyle Harper’s article published in the Journal of Biblical Literature, “Porneia—The Making of a Christian Sexual Norm.” He cited two sources to support the expansion of the meaning of πορνεία during the intertestamental period: Sirach...
by admin | Jun 22, 2012 | Section Two, Sexual Immorality
For a long time I thought I understood exactly what sexual immorality (πορνεία) in 1 Corinthians 5:1 (NET) [Table] meant. It is actually reported that sexual immorality (πορνεία) exists among you, the kind of immorality (πορνεία) that is not permitted even among the...
by admin | Jun 8, 2012 | Section One, Sexual Immorality
Athens and Corinth1 are the only locales around the Mediterranean where contemporary historians recognize idolatrous worship (including its drunken sexual practices) being carried out more or less openly in the first century. Trusting the Bible and experimenting with...
by admin | Jun 4, 2012 | Adultery in the Prophets, Section One, Sexual Immorality
Ezekiel, a priest, prophesied from Babylonia after the southern kingdom of Judah was taken captive.1 Ezekiel 23 is a history lesson from the Lord’s point of view told as an allegory (23:1-4 NET). The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, there were two women who...