by Andy Roland | Jul 4, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
PAUL ON SEX Sex is a hot potato. It is in everybody’s minds, and St Paul does talk quite a lot about it. In this blog I am simply showing what Paul did say. You may or may not agree with it, but here it is. What was St Paul’s attitude to sex? Paul’s attitude to...
by Andy Roland | Jun 28, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
Did St Paul regard homosexuality a a sin? The straight-forward answer is yes. In Romans chapter 1 he describes homosexual liaisons, both men and women, as an natural outworking of a society based on idol worship. But there is more to be said. Claiming to be wise,...
by Andy Roland | Jun 21, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
Was St Paul anti-women? There are arguments for and against. The Case for the Prosecution Of course St Paul was anti-women. He kept telling them to be submissive, subject to their husbands and to be silent in church. Here are some of the things he said: “Women...
by Andy Roland | Jun 13, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
ST PAUL AND JESUS INTRODUCTION A favourite way of attacking Christianity is to assert that it went downhill because of St Paul. He complicated the simple message of Jesus and made the church a guilt factory. Apart from the fact that Jesus’ message was far from simple...
by Andy Roland | Jun 6, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
PAUL ON FOOD Introduction It was all very well sorting out a compromise over how Jews and Gentiles could enter the new Jesus community, i.e. through adult baptism, NOT through adult circumcision and baptism. But if you were to have any kind of common life between...
by Andy Roland | May 10, 2018 | Ascension Day, Bible, Church’s Year, Jesus
WHAT HAPPENED ON ASCENSION DAY? You will be reading this while I am in Germany, celebrating Ascension Day, or, as they charmingly call it, Himmefahrt. This means Sky Journey, and everyone in Europe takes it off as a public holiday. Only in pagan old England is it...
