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Originally Posted by martinguerre
i cor 5:5...read the preceeding verses, and the problem of the text is a couple. man lives with his father's wife, and they may or may not be bumping uglies. my guess would be not, that they are claiming radical celibacy.
Paul can't really take this...while it is profoundly anti social...and Paul loves that...its going to be misunderstood and bring slander down on the community. He tells the church to stop praying for the man, to cease admitting him in to the group. Paul hopes this will bring the man to repentance, at least in time for the Big Show. his concern is shown several verses down...associating with the man will cause others to stumble.
so...associating with sexual immorality is bad. but paul doesn't define it for us. and i think it's quite possible to hold a Christian definition of sexual immorality that doesn't conflict with erotica, or some of the things that you mention as un-Christian.
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But,is it not Paul making these judgements, and not the Christ. Again we get into translation, and interpretation of the teachings of the Christ. I think the issue here has little to do with what this great man taught us, but instead how we are to blend these things into our social settings. This cannot be done without first understanding the fundamental messages in these lessons.
My personal descisions regarding this difficult issue is to disregard the many interpretations of scripture as accurate dictations of the words of Jesus, and instead delve into the "message" contained within. I do this by reading numerous translations of the same passage, and attempting to reverse engineer what the Christ actually meant. I do the same with Hindu texts, and Celtic mythology.
There is no reason, In my opinion, to limit my spiritual growth to the teachings of a single path or manifestation of what we refer to as God. I find it likely there have been many Avatars on this Earth, and the Christ is but one of them.