Paul and Noodity

[The Rogue Tomato]

In at least a couple places, Paul refers to athletic games, which most likely were the Olympics.  When he does, he doesn't condemn the games.

Do you think Paul actually ever viewed the Olympics?  They were dedicated to Greek gods, and the athletes were all bare naked, nude, without any clothes on. 

 

[praise_yeshua]

Isaiah walked around "naked" for years while "preaching".

Just saying.....

 

[Ransom]

Do you think Paul actually ever viewed the Olympics?  They were dedicated to Greek gods, and the athletes were all bare naked, nude, without any clothes on.

1. Although Jewish culture was a modest culture, there were certain venues where casual nudity would have been acceptable, such as the public baths.

2. Because the athletes competed in the nude, women were forbidden to watch the games.

3. Paul doesn't specifically approve of or condemn the games; he simply uses them as a familiar analogy.

 

[The Rogue Tomato]

Do you think Paul actually ever viewed the Olympics?  They were dedicated to Greek gods, and the athletes were all bare naked, nude, without any clothes on.

1. Although Jewish culture was a modest culture, there were certain venues where casual nudity would have been acceptable, such as the public baths.

2. Because the athletes competed in the nude, women were forbidden to watch the games.

3. Paul doesn't specifically approve of or condemn the games; he simply uses them as a familiar analogy.

Only married women were forbidden to watch the games, under penalty of death. 

 

[Ransom]

Only married women were forbidden to watch the games, under penalty of death.

Possibly. I had been led to believe that only some high priestess or other was exempt from the prohibition, but it's also possible my sources were in error.

Either way, however, the spirit of the prohibition is the same: because of the nudity, there was an official concern about modesty (even though the purpose of the Games, at least in part, was a celebration of the human body).