   
WAS PAUL EVER MARRIED?
   
According to Edersheim's Life and Times of the Jewish Messiah, he was 
supposed to be married, because he was supposed to be a member of the 
Sanhedrin, and every member of the Sanhedrin was supposed to have a 
wife.
   
I never have bought that stuff.  I figure Edersheim and Josephus don't 
know what they're talking about half the time.  I never read anywhere 
in the Bible that Paul was a member of any Sanhedrin.  And if he was, 
I never read anywhere where a member of the Sanhedrin had to be 
married.
   
I think a lot of that stuff is talk.
   
Look at verses 32,33, and 34:  "He that is unmarried careth for the 
things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:  But he 
that is married, careth for the things that are of the world, how he 
may please his wife."
   
You know, when a guy gets married, or a woman gets married--you ladies 
can say what you want to--you cannot attend upon the Lord without 
distraction, married to a man.  Because he'll distract you!  I mean, 
you'll have to constantly think of what he wants!  No way to get 
around it!  And you're picking up after him around the house, too!
   
And you take a man.  When a man marries a woman, I don't care how good 
a man he is, he's got to think about her, because there may be 
children.  And, if there are not children, he's got a responsibility, 
see?
   
So if a guy is able to stay single and be undistracted, he'll do a 
better job for the Lord.  But if he be distracted to the point where, 
like it says here, he goes into sin, then he'd better get married, and 
take on responsibilities.
   
The Bible is a very practical Book.  It gives one of the motives for 
marriage as just to avoid the life of sin.  That may not be very 
romantic, but it's real practical!
   

   

 
