Real Bible Rob
I am a Presbyterian USA minister who interprets the Bible in all of its messy and varied voices. I teach and preach spiritual growth to people who want an open and affirming Christianity. My social media tagline is "People say lots of things about the Bible that aren't really there."
My full-length sermons and live stream are available on YouTube: @robchrist8999 and @edmondspresbyterian132
Contact me at: epc-pcusa.org, pastorepc@frontier.com
Real Bible Rob
Biblical Marriage from Ephesians 5:21-33 & Matthew 19:3-12
What is Biblical Marriage? That is a hard question to answer because there are many biblical marriages. There is Israelite marriage in the time of the Patriarchs, there is Judean marriage in the Second Temple period, there is New Testament Jewish marriage, there is New Testament gentile marriage, there is sacramental marriage as the Catholic Church defines it and there is Protestant marriage. Then all of this is applied to modern American notions of marriage and the nuclear family. I describe what the true purpose of marriage was in the Old Testament and New Testament. I also describe why no modern couple would want to have a biblical marriage. Then I show how modern Christians project our ideas of marriage on the two most commonly quoted passages in the New Testament and how they do and do not apply to us.
For this I refer to David A. de Silva's "Honor, Patronage, Kinship and Purity" and Carolyn Osiek's "Early Christian Families in Context"
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