Well. “Cornithian” was a term of insult: it implied that you were flagrantly effeminate and bisexual. The temple of Aphrodite had cult prostitutes. Male and Female. Corinth was sin city.
12“All things are lawful for me,” but not1 Corinthians 6:12-20were all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14And God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, “The two shall be one flesh.” 17But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. 19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
OK… we are not to be a pick up artist, or a user of whores. Nor are we to neglect our bodies. We need to walk, to diet, to care for our bodies.
We need to be discipline ourselves, like an athlete. None of this is taught frequently. For it is unpopular. But it is not our task o be popular. For the west, currently, makes the inhabitants of Corinth and Sodom look like a bunch of pikers. We dishonour the true and correct and glorify the camp.
The Church should not reflect this. Thus, if we are popular, we are not doing our job.
For the west, currently, makes the inhabitants of Corinth and Sodom look like a bunch of pikers. We dishonour the true and correct and glorify the camp.
Indeed, Chris. I think many in the church care a bit too much about being accepted by the larger culture.
Yes, I think the issue of acceptance or being liked is the issue
That’s why I am sick and tired of the attempts of the church to stay relevant by going along with the pop culture. Precisely by absorbing the cultural Marxism of feminism and other isms the many churches that have turned liberal will become irrelevant. Although the western churches are mostly attended by women and men are driven away by the Sappyness. Churches are declining in the west as a result.