Clear- ly, God is speaking of marriage when He commands the male and female to become fruitful and numerous and fill up the earth. This command to produce offspring includes the com- mand to become good stewards of creation. God's earth and re- sources are to be cared for with the ...
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10. If one of those who live a virgin life for the Lord's sake insult those who are married, let him be anathema. 14. If any woman, abominating marriage, desert her husband, and will become a recluse, let her be anathema." (See also Isaac Taylor's Ancient Christianity.) At this ...
26. Some people erroneously claim this verse to mean that people from different nations shouldn’t marry. However, this passage has nothing to do with marriage. As John Gill makes clear in his classic commentary, the context is that God is in charge of all things—where, how and for how...
For example, in recent weeks many American Christians have become offended by the imprisonment of Kim Davis, a Kentucky Court Clerk who was found in contempt of court for blocking the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples in her state. Her defenders werequick to point out the diff...
marriage statistics Please don’t talk of body-revealing outfits this way! May 4, 2023 It is common, but that does not make it right: Many people try to tell young women to cover up their bodies when they dress. In itself, I can see some reasons for that. ...
Grappling with Your IdentityMarriage & ParentingPersonal StoriesResponding to Our CultureStruggles & Joys See the most recent post from Coping with Life below. Comparing Ourselves With Others October 16, 2020Lynne Fox1 Do you ever try to boost your self-esteem? Of course you do – we all do ...
4, 340). The pulling off the shoe was a legal act, symbolical, with respect to the Levirate marriage (De 25:9-10; Ru 4:7; comp. Otho, Lex. Rabb. p. 112), that the individual surrendered his title or passed it over to another, who thus, as it were, stepped into his shoes ...
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This morning I was reading 1 Corinthians 10 and came across the well-known verse 13. “No trial has overtaken you that is not common to mankind. And God is faithful: he will not let you be tested beyond what you can bear, but with the trial will also provide the way through, so ...