“ Question? ” I "do" many things for the cause of Christ but I am not a "member" of a local church. Am I being deceived about my relationship with Christ?
“ Great Sermon! ” the gospel is always one. Only someone who does not know the Gospel would say there are many versions. Evangelicals share the same gospel. The biblical gospel. The only gospel. They may disagree on some things, but the gospel is the same. That's where unity comes from. Knowing the Good News of Jesus Christ.
John UK wrote: No, not closed CV. God = death to adulterer Unless Jesus changed the OT law? And therefore enraged the Pharisees? If a man's adulterous wife is thus dead, he is free to remarry.
Do the Amish kill their adulterers or forgive them? Isn't it only through death that an Amish spouse could get remarried? If you're caught in Adultery either you're put to death or your Amish wife shall forgive you.
"The American colonies officially required marriages to be registered, but until the mid-19th century, state supreme courts routinely ruled that public cohabitation was sufficient evidence of a valid marriage."
-Coontz, Stephanie (November 26, 2007). "[URL=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/opinion/26coontz.html]]]Taking Marriage Private[/URL]," The New York Times.
Wonder if the government would consider the millions of modern "Cohabitating Couples" (pumped up on steroids) as validly married. Perhaps this historic perspective is a reason why the homosexual community also wants to be "validly married."
Also, what Bible verse requires that we have a marriage license?
Do the Amish hire a pastor to marry a couple and does this couple sign a marriage certificate?
Funny thing is that the Amish would never even consider divorce. They may become the last community on the planet without divorce. Wonder how their Matthew 19:9 verse reads.
Perhaps our church buildings and living in a complex society drives pastors to provide the vows & sermon and a married couple receives a marriage license.
Also, without a civil certificate how could we divorce when a person needs to?
When will someone blow the whistle, throw the flag and put an end to this pandemic Christian orgy -- even continuing after the wedding? Whatever happened to "deny yourself, daily take up your cross and follow Me"?
Just because Margaret Sanger and her pagan devotees consume her birth control and sterilize themselves into oblivion, doesn't mean it's wise for Christians to dance to the beat of her drum. What have we become?
What is Christian marriage? Isn't it nothing more than a revolving-door?
Until pastors gather to sharply define Christian marriage parameters, discussing whether or not to marry a "cohabitating" (AKA fornicating) couple makes for a titillating article but can provide no anchor for Christian marriage rocked by this sex-soaked world.
Liar Exposer wrote: "Since Mary was age 12-15 when she consented" You wicked deviant liar, NO SUCH VERSE EXISTS SHAMELESS LIAR. Filthy vile perverted propaganda heretic, you sick demented minds know no ends to your queen of heaven cult do you. REPENT.
Ahem. Learned her age was "about 12" from a very conservative reliable baptist pastor.
Once the legal canon is opened to allow same-sex marriage, won't they also tinker with the age of consent? Why wouldn't these homosexuals gladly parade these (i.e., biblical, legal) precedents so they can roll back the age of consent to age 12-13 and cast a wider net for sexual partners?
If the Bible doesn't define the exact age of consent, won't our politicians, in concert with the homosexual and psychological communities, define it for us in the DSM so that the homosexual/pedophilia problem "goes away"?
Currently the age of consent in the United States ranges from age 16 to 18, but "by the 1880s, most states set the age of consent at ten or twelve, and in one state, Delaware, the age of consent was only seven. A New York Times article states that it was still aged seven in Delaware in 1895."
"We would be naïve and dishonest were we to say this is a Roman Catholic problem and has nothing to do with us because we have married and female priests in our church. Sin and abusive behavior know no ecclesial or other boundaries." Rt. Rev. William Persell, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, Good Friday Sermon, 2002.
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