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>No, it's a simple mistake, I wasn't aware Paul was quoting someone else.
Even if I were willing to believe that, it just reinforces my statement that people should READ THE SCRIPTURE ON THEIR OWN. This is what letting preachers teach you select quote style gets you. Even if you don't understand it all at once, having read it tends to give you
>Wait, didn't it say...
moments. Which then lets you go and double check too! Which is handy that bibles sort of rain from the sky right now. Complete with back to front searchable versions of every translation online.
> You keep ignoring Paul explicitly recommending
It's exactly that it's a recommendation that I point out. This is not the only time Paul makes a statement of personal advise AND admits it's not a command from God at the same time. And here he even goes out of his way to admit people have varying gifts from God. So he can't tell everyone they MUST be celibate. He's just being honest, and he is RIGHT.
If you get married, that's not a sin. It's not even a lack of virtue. He gives advice to married people in other places too, if I remember right. But the fact is, having a family brings with it worldly troubles to contend with as well. Celibacy has drawbacks, but it's the easiest way to keep your eyes on God's demands rather than trying to please your family. Which is what it's about. Even to the married, he says please God first. Act as if you aren't married. Which is just sound advice. He's 100% right.
But that doesn't detract from all the other stuff. That God allows and encourages the relationship in it's RIGHTFUL CONTEXT (marriage male female only). That Paul himself admits this is not a command. That Paul admits it's not going to be fro everyone. That Paul admits this is his recommendation in the same letter he gives the advice.
And you even quote him admitting not sinning is the point. The goal. Don't bait yourself in to sinning by trying to be mighty.
