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Here’s a lengthy essay I wrote on this topic: link.
For the tl;dr crowd, here’s the conclusion: both the Old and New Testaments provide certain grounds for a valid divorce, which includes the option of remarriage. Divorce outside of these grounds is forbidden to Christians, and Christians are always encouraged to maintain the marriage.
I welcome comments! Corrections, agreements, disagreements, what-about-this observations, etc.
Are all human beings really born guilty? Lots of people think so. Theologians, scholars, and preachers have been writing and speaking on this topic for over a thousand years.
There are some serious consequences of this doctrine, and I wonder if they have really been thought through. Perhaps the idea has been around so long that it has become another one of doctrines that we just assume is true, then look around for proof.
Dr. Michael Brown has issued a call to test contemporary prophets, saying that recent prophecies about the COVID-19 pandemic form a perfect test case. Dr. Brown suggests that we can wait until mid-April and see if what two particular prophets predict comes to pass, and then we’ll know whether they (and prophecy in general) are legitimate.
Ordinarily I would agree with Dr. Brown that this is an interesting test case, but why wait? Why not test the prophets with what they’ve said already? Here is a sampling of items I found on the subject of this pandemic. The following is not an exhaustive list; there’s a lot of content out there on this subject, so material is not lacking.
I had an interesting conversation with my son recently. He’s 18, and was telling me he was dissatisfied with the church we are attending. Now, the reasons of his dissatisfaction aren’t relevant here, because I want to focus on an amazing remark he made. Continue reading “Knowing too much”
In part 1, I pointed out that not only did the apostles not “unhitch” their new faith from the Old Testament, but they looked to the OT to explain and inform their actions. But just what did happen in Acts 15? Did the apostles really change the law? Continue reading “Hitching up to the Old Testament, part 2”