Biblical References Used by Both Sides in the Marriage Amendment DebateWWJD?Both sides on the marriage amendment issue are looking to theBible to support their views...Kimball, Joe
How can Old Testament Biblical references to polygamy and regulations regarding polygamy be of benefit to modern Christians living in monogamous marriages? Listen to this 4 part podcast series and find out. You will never fully understand God’s design for marriage if you skip what he says about...
Malachi 2:15informs us that an important purpose of marriage is to produce godly offspring—progeny that are trained in the ways of the Lord. Jesus (inMatthew 19) and Paul (inEphesians 5) make it clear that when a man and woman marry, they become one flesh (because they were one flesh...
Some of the Biblical references to honey debash could be referring to a sweet grape syrup. The Hebrew debash is similar to Arabic dibs, a sweet syrup made by boiling down the juice of grapes, raisins or dates. In moderate use the social impact of yeast is beneficial but alcoholism is ...
In a context where God through Malachi is rebuking His people for the way that they have treated marriage, Malachi points out that if the ideal marriage state had entailed more than one woman for a man, God could have given Adam more than Eve. How was that possible? He had the “...
The next step was the disapproval of-even one marriage for the clergy, but not yet the prohibition of it. The priesthood and marriage became more and more incompatible in the prevailing view. The Montanists shared in this feeling; among the oracles of the prophetess Prisca is one to the ...
Incidental references to the subject of this article, and occasional fragments bearing upon it, may be found in patristic and mediaeval literature, representing each successive century from the first to the sixteenth. Some of the fragmentary treatises referred to are embodied in letters, some in ...
Immortality.— The survival of the soul after the dissolution of the body is not expressly taught in the Old Testament, but it is continually implied, and not obscurely intimated in the references to the spirits of the departed (e.g. "gathered unto his fathers," i.e., in the world of...
All of those responses do not take the words themselves into account. Jesus said “the beginning of creation”. He did NOT say “the beginning of mankind” or “the beginning of marriage”. But what about the 3rd bullet point: “Mankind wasn’t made at the beginning. Adam was made at ...
" etc.); further, from the possession of riches, or, indeed, any property whatsoever; from hurting any being, animal or vegetable; from heeding their own family, or showing any pity to him who is not of the Manichaean creed; and finally, from breaking their chastity by marriage or ...