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fellas. This week on the Daily Blade, we are talking about the crisis of discernment that we have in our world today. And we're using the results of the State of Theology 2025 survey by Leganier and LifeWay to bring you statements that self-described evangelicals believe, and then we're letting the Word of God show us how we should actually think about these topics. So yesterday we dispensed with this idea that a majority of evangelicals believe that people are good by nature, and today we're exploring the concept of
marriage. So many Christians and political commentators in this country see the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in the Obergfeld v. Hodges case in 2015 as an inflection point for American society, okay? So essentially, this ruling requires all states and territories under the sovereign jurisdiction of the United States of America to perform and recognize the marriages of same-sex couples. So, in an instant, the legalization of gay marriage changed the entire social and moral fabric of this country. And even beyond that, it basically took the debate over gay marriage off the table. I mean, have you noticed that? Because, you know, politicians and social advocates, they basically stopped talking about this. There were no more debates. If you even brought up the debate, you were seen as some sort of like crazed outsider because the American body politic had moved on from this subject. And this entire debate actually hinges on just two questions. The first is who gets to define what marriage is? And the second is what is the definition of marriage? And we should keep those two questions in mind as we go back to the State of Theology 2025 survey to see how self-described evangelicals responded to the following statement.
God created marriage to be between one man and one woman. Only 65% of evangelicals agreed with this statement. So 35% of so-called evangelicals, people that say that the Bible is the highest authority in their lives, do not think that God created marriage and that marriage is between one man and one woman. I mean, it's just astonishing, really. But what does God have to say about
it? So if we go all the way back to Genesis 2, verse 24, therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. So it's a very short scripture, but there's a lot here. So it talks about a man and his wife. So the original design is both binary and complementary. And it doesn't describe two men, two women, uh, you know, kind of a random grouping of men and women. It describes one man and one woman. And we have to look at the timing of this as well. God established this before the fall. Okay. You know, the before the law was given and before any kind of society was formed. So at its purest, most original, marriage is one man and one woman. That's the form that we're presented. And Genesis 2.24 also talks about how one man and one woman are supposed to become one flesh. So this isn't some sort of like, you know, emotional or legal or ethereal thing. Like it's literal. It's truly a becoming. And in order for this becoming to happen, a new whole has to be created, right? And this new whole by design only happens when it is one man and one woman. And Genesis 2.24 also talks about how this new whole created by the union of one man and one woman must hold fast to one another in order for the whole to remain whole. So this is the doctrine of leave and cleave, right? So a single man leaves his family of origin in order to hold fast to a single woman. So it is a singular and exclusive arrangement on both sides. And a whole cannot be made definitionally by two husbands, two wives, or any other kind of configuration other than one husband and one wife. But hey, I've heard from you know dorks on the internet that we can't just read the Bible and do what it says, right? We have to look at the red letters of Jesus and elevate what you know these people think Jesus is saying to a supreme position. But just a side point here, if you actually believe that Jesus is part of the Godhead, you know, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, then you have to realize that all of the letters in the Bible are red letters, but I'll digress a little bit.
So what does Jesus have to say about Genesis 2 24? Well, we get his answer as recorded in Matthew 19, verses 4 through 6. He answered, This is Jesus. Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God is joined together, let not man separate. So unfortunately for the LGBTQ plus mob and those that seek to increase societal decay, Jesus doesn't update or reinterpret Genesis, okay? He doesn't start advocating for a new framework of understanding marriage. He begins his response with, have you not read? So he's looking at the Pharisees, these religious elites, and he's deliberately telling them, Genesis isn't a cultural artifact from ancient Israel, okay? Genesis is the authoritative and still binding word of Yahweh, right? So back to the two questions I posed earlier. Who gets to define what marriage is and what is the definition of marriage? So who gets to find what marriage is? Well, God does. Why? Because he came up with the idea. So there's that. And what is the definition of marriage? Well, marriage is the one flesh union of one man and one woman for life. Now, you may not like that, but it doesn't change truth and reality.
Alright, guys, see you back here tomorrow.
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