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NASB | 1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 6:16 Do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "THE TWO SHALL BE ONE FLESH." [Gen 2:24] |
Subject: having sex if engaged biblical stance? |
Bible Note: Dear biblicalman, You wrote, concerning 1 Corinthians 6:16, "It is quite clear. It is that if you have sex wth someone you are made physically one with them. That is WHAT IT SAYS." (sic) I read through the thread again. Then I tracked back through the various Bible commentators to which I have access. I do not find any that draw your conclusion concerning the passage. John Calvin probably says it as simply as any of them: "For if he [Paul] quotes it [Genesis 2:24] to prove that two persons who commit fornication together become one flesh, he turns it aside from its true meaning to what is quite foreign to it. For Moses speaks there not of a base and prohibited cohabitation of a man and a woman, but of the marriage connection which God blesses. For he shows that that bond is so close and indissoluble, that it surpasses the relationship which subsists between a father and a son, which, assuredly, can have no reference to fornication." Even the commentators for which I have much less affection (e.g., Barnes, Clarke, Wesley, etc.) do not make your kind of causal connection. It looks to me like your advice was sound enough to Superbabiez -- although I might have encouraged them to marry sooner rather than later -- but the use of the 1 Corinthians passage is less than ideal. Still and all... a good discussion. In Him, Doc |