The Holy Kiss: What Did Early Christians Actually Do? #shorts

Lesson Transcript

The question comes up a lot. I've been asked it many times. Was the Holy Kiss practiced between men and women? I'm going to read to you several quotations that touch on that subject. The first one is from Athena Goris. He would have been writing about the year 175, so this is quite early.

He says this: "On behalf of those then to whom we apply the names of brothers and sisters and other designations of relationship, in other words, mother or father if it was an older person, we exercise the greatest care that their bodies should remain undefiled and uncorrupted." For the Logos, that would be Christ, again says to us, "If anyone kisses a second time because it has given him pleasure, he sins." Now, that's not a quotation from the Bible.

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