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Robert Gagnon on Divorce
I found it interesting to peruse Robert Gagnon’s article on divorce, “Divorce and Remarriage-After-Divorce in Jesus and Paul” (available here), which was a response to an article by David Instone-Brewer. Among Gagnon’s comments: Whether Jesus would have adopted an exception for adultery as Matthew thought, I do not know. I doubt that he would have…
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Responding to Steve Hays’ Argument for Divorce Grounded in "Domestic Violence"
Steve Hays recently published a post (link to post) in which he argued in favor of the notion that domestic violence is a legitimate ground of divorce. I provided some comments in the comment box of that post, which led to Steve posting two new posts addressing some of my comments (link to Steve’s second…
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Properly Loving One’s Neighbor
Douglas Wilson (there, I’ve now lost half my reading audience) has posted some shots at Horton’s piece on “gay marriage.” (link to Wilson) Wilson was struck by something Horton said, something that also struck me: “The challenge there is that two Christians who hold the same beliefs about marriage as Christians may appeal to neighbor-love…
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"So You Still Think Homosexuality is Sinful?"
Another graphic that is floating around the social media sites is one titled “So You Still Think Homosexuality is Sinful?” and subtitled “And therefore gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry?” (Example) That’s not actually the reason that “gay marriage” shouldn’t be allowed. The reason is that such a thing is an oxymoron. Marriage is a…
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How the Bible Defines Marriage
There is a graphic that has made its way around various social media sites (example) that purports to describe “How the Bible Defines Marriage.” The graphic manages to oversimplify things, get things wrong, and needlessly complicate things. Let’s address the needless complications first. The Bible is pretty clear on the definition of marriage. Marriage is…
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Frank Turek on Same Sex Marriage
Marcus McElhaney has posted a video series from Frank Turek providing arguments about and against same sex marriage. I don’t fully agree with Turek’s approach of saying that we shouldn’t bring the Bible into the discussion, but the arguments he uses mostly seem like pretty strong arguments. Check it out at this link. To God…
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Sin of Onan
*** Caveat *** Onan’s sin was something disgusting, something that displeased God, and for which Onan was slain. The reason I’m spending a whole post on this topic is that recently some Roman Catholics have been trying to use the issue of Onan’s sin as some sort of argument that “Protestant” folks are unwilling to…
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Joseph and Mary’s Marriage
On a recent Dividing Line there was a clip played taken from, if I recall correctly, the “Catholic Answers” show, regarding Joseph and Mary’s “marriage.” The caller asked (and I may be slightly paraphrasing) two questions: 1) Where in the Bible does it say that marriage is only valid when it is consummated? 2) Did…
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Married Priest Movement on the Rise
One of the standard objections to the Papists has been that they violate Scriptures by forbidding their “priests” and bishops from marrying. Scripture not only permits the marriage of ordinary folks but of elders/bishops and deacons, the servants of the church. Scripture not only permits such marriage, but views it as the norm: not that…