You will however, find passages like the Exodus 22:16-17, giving fathers authority over their daughters in marriage: “16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto ...
The passages above show that neither male nor female Hebrew indentured servants could be kept indefinitely unless the male Hebrew willingly wanted to stay and serve (see Exodus 21:5-6) or the woman was taken as a wife by the man who purchased her either for himself or one of his sons. ...
The time has come to take stock of where people are at present on reading biblical passages pertinent to discussions of same-sex affectional or erotic preferences. There are two reasons: a critical mass of published and public discussion of the topic by scholars, and a high level of interest...
(Featuring 300 Biblical Evidences Favoring Catholicism) [1992; revised 9-28-05] Holy Trinity: Hundreds of Biblical Proofs (RSV edition) [1982; rev. 2012] Reply to Lucas Banzoli’s 205 Potshots at St. Peter (4 Parts) [5-30-22] Banzoli’s 45 “Faith Alone” Passages; My 200 Biblical...
Bible of Jesus and of the early Christians, they refused to accept quotations from the Apocrypha as support for Christian teaching. The use of certain passages in the Apocrypha to support prayers for the dead and other Roman Catholic practices and doctrines only strengthened them in this refusal....
in their Jewish passages, a part of Jewish Hellenistic literature; inasmuch as they contain eschatological prophecies of future doom and salvation, they are apocalyptic, but in their polemics against idolatry and their apology for Jewish faith, they are a product of Jewish Hellenistic propagandistic ...
Interestingly, the definite article “the” appears before the word “faith.” What Peter is saying is that the Gentiles hearts at Caesarea had been cleansed by “the faith” or “the gospel” (cf. Jude 3; Heb. 11:39—in both of these passages, the article “the” appears before the ...
Church,Favorite Complementarian Passages,Response 1Comment Tagged with: Josh Butler Owen Strachan’s version of male strength weakens the church April 2, 2022 Owen Strachan, former president of the Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, loves strong men. No, I don’t mean his sexual preferenc...
James Dunn seeks to carry forward the debate on Jewish soteriology, on the relation of justification by faith to judgment "according to works," on Christian fulfillment of the law, and on the crucial role of Christ, his death and resurrection. Full of detail and intriguing thought, Dunn's ...
This Scripture passages above make it clear that gay marriage and polyamory are both wicked perversions of God’s design for sex within marriage. So, if polyandry, gay marriage and polyamory are all violations of God’s design for marriage, then what polygyny (a man having more than one ...