In most societies men and women have been valued for their different roles in the household economy. Marriage therefore often has occasioned other economic exchanges. If a woman's labor is highly valued, a man may be required to offer valuable goods (bride-price) or his own labor (bride-ser...
Or more than that, what is the biblical definition of marriage? While we could look to many passages throughout Scripture to answer this question, we will go to the Book of Genesis to see this simple understanding: God gave us marriage to enjoy and display the gospel. In the very ...
Marriage is the union of a man and a woman for the purpose of companionship and procreation[1]. Mankind and the animals created on the fifth and sixth days were mostly created in male and female forms for the purpose of having offspring and becoming nume
Congress should pass this Biblical based Gay Marriage Amendment. Gay marriage should not be legal. Our Christian faith and the Bible teaches that Gay and lesbian marriage should be prohibited in our society. Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt...
(4) the social equality of man and wife, as implied in the terms ish and ishshah, the one being the exact correlative of the other, as well as in the words "help meet for him;" ⇒Definition of marriage (5) the subordination of the wife to the husband, consequent upon her subsequ...
Biblical Truths for a Beautiful Marriage. Learn how to triumph in any difficulty in your marriage. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples John 13:35 TESTIMONIALS Gerard and Jeannie are a remarkable couple…their marriage is an inspiration not only to us,...
In terms of legal recognition, most sovereign states and other jurisdictions limit marriage to opposite-sex couples or two persons of opposite gender in the gender binary, and a diminishing number of these permit polygyny, child marriages, and forced marriages. In modern times, a growing number ...
The evangelical writings do not, indeed, frequently offer directions expressly on the subject of marriage, the point appearing rather to be assumed than argued, that in Christian marriage the husband and wife ought both, in the emphatic terms of the apostle Peter, to be and walk as being "...
The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and "Sexuality" in the Hebrew Bible (review) Her argument proceeds through a linguistic analysis of biblical terms for desire, sex, and gendered physiology, to a consideration ofideologies and ... A Keefe - 《Shofar An Interdisciplinary Journal ...
Real biblical ‘interracial’ marriage If one wants to use the term ‘interracial,’ then the real ‘interracial’ marriage that God says we should not enter into is when a child of the Last Adam (one who is a new creation in Christ—a Christian) marries one who is an unconverted child...