Friday, January 20, 2012
Is Jesus a sinner for not following Gods command to be fruitful and multiply?
"For there are three philosophical sects among the Jews...Pharisees... Sadducees; and the third sect, which pretends to a severer discipline, are called Essens. These last are Jews by birth, and seem to have a greater affection for one another than the other sects have. These Essens reject pleasures as an evil, but esteem continence, and the conquest over our pions, to be virtue. They neglect wedlock, but choose out other persons children, while they are pliable, and fit for learning, and esteem them to be of their kindred, and form them according to their own manners. They do not absolutely deny the fitness of marriage, and the succession of mankind thereby continued..." - Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, Book II
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