sexual ethics - new testament

Question 1

Mark 10:11?

Answer 1

‘Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her’

Question 2

What is the ‘Greatest Commandment’?

Answer 2

‘Love God with all your heart and love your neighbour as yourself.’

Question 3

Explanation as to why Paul may have been so focussed on avoiding sin and celibacy?

Answer 3

believed that the second coming would be soon - Christians ought to be more focussed on spiritual matters rather than physical matters such as sex

Question 4

1 Corinthians 7:8-9 - Paul?

Answer 4

‘Now to the unmarried widows I say: it is good for them to stay celibate. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.’

Question 5

View of Christian feminist Jocelyn Burrowes?

Answer 5

Paul’s teachings provided basis for womankind’s oppression within the Christian Church for 2000 years .
His theology = misogynistic and based in fear of equality

Question 6

Examples of some of St Paul’s teachings that emphasised the equality that Jesus taught?

Answer 6

‘There is neither Jew nor Gentile,…slave nor free, nor male and female for all are one in Christ.’ (Galatians 3)
‘For this reason man leaves his father and mother and holds fast to his wife, and the two become one flesh.’ (Ephesians 5)