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 12, 2018 | Newsletter
REV ANDY’S NEWS JUNE 2018 FIVE STEPS TO FAITH – THE LAUNCH The launch of Five Steps to Faith was a lovely evening. Not as many as I was hoping for, but a smallish group of people who really took part. One decision I made which really paid off was to move the...
