The U.S. Supreme Court used its combined wisdom to redefine marriage which it had no authority to do since God decided on marriages long before any judge, bureaucrat, state, or nation existed. Marriage has been on a slippery slope since God performed the first wedding ceremony in Eden to Lamech taking a second wife to […]
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Leave a Comment (In recent years, main-line denominations have moved their headquarters to Sodom, satisfying the culture, crusaders, and courts resulting in trials, trouble, turmoil–also empty pews and offering plates. Same-sex “marriage” is the most divisive issue facing churches resulting in hundreds of churches leaving their compromising denominations and thousands of individuals leaving local churches. The “separatists” say […]
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Leave a Comment (The Middle East is a writhing, dangerous snake pit that is a threat to the whole area and the world. The question is: who is responsible to kill the deadly vipers? I think fellow Muslims should climb into the pit and do the killing, not the U.S. Muslim nations have been a curse on man […]
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Leave a Comment (Some critics tell us that to reject the state’s involvement in marriage is disengaging from the culture; however, to do so is obedience to Scripture in that we become salt and light. Most Christians are sugar and provide a feeble, flickering, faltering light. The church is supposed to impact the culture; however, in recent years, […]
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Leave a Comment (In Cana of Galilee the marriage feast lasted three days and Christ put His blessings upon it and the importance of His appearance cannot be emphasized too much for us today. However, neither government nor religious institutions were involved. For Christian marriage requirements I should add Christ to consent, commitment, consummation, and communication. The Bible […]
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Leave a Comment (The state should not permit or prohibit a marriage except when the best interest of society is at stake. Such exceptions would be when underage children want to marry. Then statutory rape and other laws would kick in. If family members wanted to marry, incest laws would be invoked. If the severely mentally handicapped want […]
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Leave a Comment (Marriage is a right, not a privilege granted by the state. At state-approved weddings you have the bride and the groom but also the state as partner to the contract. The state gives permission to marry because you asked for that permission. So don’t ask. You don’t need the state’s permission to do what is […]
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Leave a Comment (Many Christians are obviously concerned, confused, and contorted about what to do when a law is passed that is offensive to them or, more specifically, one that is contrary to the Bible. Last week a Texas county clerk refused to issue marriage licenses to homosexual “couples” because it was contrary to what she believes the […]
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Leave a Comment (Marriage for centuries has made rude, crude, and even lewd men into softies and developed a stable, normal, decent society where women are cherished and exalted and children are trained and protected–until recent years. Marriage and the family survived 6,000 years, yet in the last 60 years both have been damaged, denigrated, almost destroyed; however, […]
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Leave a Comment (Marriage is consent, commitment, consummation, and communication. You can’t have a genuine marriage without all of them. It is not marriage if there is no consent (of the couple and until recent years, the fathers). Without commitment, even a state-approved wedding is simply a “living arrangement” that is sorry, sordid, and sad–also sin. It is […]
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