We have a massive meltdown in the US. It didn't happen overnight, it isn't new historically, but it has divided people even within the Body of Christ.
So first we need to understand what a Christian perspective of marriage within Christian belief, actually entails.. You know God made us male and female, This was to produce children. As time went on, mankind jumped at the chance, first to corrupt marriage, by marrying more than one woman. ( One of Cain's gr grandsons, Lamech.) That man also committed, as far as we know, the second murder. And claimed Cain's protection over his own life. Noah had one wife. Preacher of righteousness.followed the correct way. Moses made laws to contain immorality within the people of Israel. He did, however allow divorce. Men's hearts (meaning all people not just males) were already hardened enough and exposed enough to the Gentile world, that he seems to have had to make provision for it. We all know the biblical stories, of a contract, and the groom preparing a space, a house, for his soon to be bride. Even now, weddings in traditional Judaism are covenant vows, not our traditional christian vows. https://www.theknot.com/content/jewish-wedding-vows Here is what Jesus had to say: Matthew 19:3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?” 4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” 7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?” 8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.” 10 The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.” 11 Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.” Christians have extended this idea of covenant...God ordained, contractual and spiritual. Making vows before God (which are broken the moment there is adultery, your vow is worthless) does not relieve you of the need to go to a secular court to be officially divorced. all contracts arising from the marriage must be settled; property, children and other benefits. This is why many pastors will not marry divorced people, an underage couple, or a same sex couple.Breaking vows is serious. Legal sanction does not change that. If a couple is not of an age to be able to agree legally or one partner, (called child marriage these days) or it is a question of furthering immorality ( adultery) or of uniting in a covenant marriage those who can never be one flesh...which includes believer and unbeliever, not just same sex unions..Paul talked about this. As the economy expanded after WWII. serial marriage became common. It should be obvious you must have enough money for a lawyer to accomplish divorce.So with the cries of abused women being stuck,( which was true, sometimes..) no fault divorce laws were enacted. the very covenant nature of marriage was reduced to no more than a business contract. Of course, it just led to more fatherless families, more economically disadvantaged women and children So.. next was welfare, taking a man's place as provider. It's a meager and horrible provenance, but we accepted that. Birth control furthered the "rights" of women to do whatever they wished with whomever they wished. It should be a no brainer that feminism and the gay rights movement would follow. To do these things, you must as a consequence abandon God. Live as pagans always lived, money and pleasure as the goals of life. Without biblical principles of how we order society and families, what restraints would legally hold? There are consequences to living your life for lust. For insisting every relationship is equal ( no two relationships are equal when it comes to that) here is a list of websites detailing some of our modern problems. https://www.educationviews.org/increasingly-convincing-link-autism-gender-dysphoric-kids/ https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/lgbt.2015.0070 http://www.pewforum.org/2017/08/08/gay-marriage-around-the-world-2013/ https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/western-central-europe-north-america/usa http://www.lifenews.com/2016/05/11/black-lives-matter-28-of-abortions-done-on-black-babies-but-blacks-just-12-of-population/ http://www.blackgenocide.org/black.html http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/10/global-abortions-top-1-million-for-first-ten-days-of-january/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/switzerlands-horse-sex-crisis-revealed-6919321 http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/sax/current https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/14/watching-pornography-damages-mens-brains/ http://www.covenanteyes.com/2014/02/03/brain-chemicals-and-porn-addiction/ https://www.nbcnews.com/health/sexual-health/sexually-transmitted-disease-cases-hit-new-high-u-s-n669051 https://www.cdc.gov/std/default.htm https://www.mckinleyirvin.com/Family-Law-Blog/2012/October/32-Shocking-Divorce-Statistics.aspx About 1 percent of the total number of currently married same-sex couples gets divorced each year, in comparison to about 2 percent of married straight couples. (Note that the percent of couples that get divorced eventually is 50 percent, but only one or two percent get divorced in a particular year.) so no moral high fives for gays getting married, Just as American in attitudes ( romance bliss soul mate instead of working out a marriage relationship over time not the same skills at all) as the rest of us. And yes, porn is cheating. You are looking at another person with lust quit trying to say it's ok. We have fostered a mindset that denies biology,teaches lust as love, leads to more unwanted pregnancy ( in older groups. young women seem to be seeking contraception more often), STD's , and lest we forget....suicide among all these groups. Girls are never told they can say NO As a matter of fact, the intense social pressure makes virginity and celibacy targets..for more bullying. We can;t even seem to stop people from raping animals. There is pressure to lower the age of consent so that adult/teen to pre teen relationships are legal. If you cannot see the harm in this, you have blinded yourself indeed. It gets worse i am told teenagers are required to state their allegiances, Declare a sexual preference and gender preference.they are bullied into making statements which might not apply to them at all as adults. And it ups those numbers as to non white non male non christian status so beloved by our politicians. This is a message of join or die. of lawlessness lust and hate ruling their lives.Of being told there is no box just to be then forced into a box. Girls and women are told by family, boyfriends, pimps, and abusers. to just have the abortion, That these "others" are self serving in doing so should be obvious, I fail to see how it is a "woman's choice" in a majority of cases. Limiting abortion might force more people to think about consequences before having sex, Hammer/nail. change the dynamic, secularly through more teaching and access to birth control, and the problem will diminish. In the church, we need to stop pussy footing around with sexual immorality. Any of Paul's letters will do for a start. do not condone, remind people of the Way. of James' listing to gentiles. No sexual immorality no eating food offered to idols, no eating anything strangled or with blood. Jesus told the Samaritan woman she was living in sin (so living together is not a christian way to approach relationship.) Help youngsters find housing they can afford separately or for goodness sake, get them married, Can;t ask it of society, but what excuse do we have? They aren;t old enough? We marry later and have just as much divorce. This is simple basics for living the way God intended. It assumes biological connections, and a mother and father, lead to more secure children, more able to take on the tasks that lead to adulthood.This has been proven in so many studies over the last generation..I shouldn;t have to list them. And for the singles..the church surely needs to step up to the bat. no more washing our hands of our fellow member in the body of Christ.They did for us (my father died when I was 3) We saw godly men going about their business. It did not remove the ache, but it helped. It may seem hopeless, but Christ was ever the champion of the hopeless. We have a better way,living the way we are told we can, or must, by society, is leading to such huge problems. Society;s answer.... it's all white men;s fault Our answer, it's our sin nature and the Devil pushing us onward, ever onward. God intended for you to have full lives, using your talents, loving other people, being secure. Let us stress that. it's not about "hating" others, it's about being reconciled with God. It is possible. We have to stand up. This society is lost. |
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