Posted on 12/22/2007 2:56:20 AM PST by Gamecock
In fact, many Puritans wanted marriage to be an entirely civil affair with no ecclesiastical involvement. After all, the Bible does not tell us to get married by a pastor as a worship service. It is obviously, then, an evil human tradition.
Can anyone who truly subscribes to the regulative principle explain where a minister of the gospel is empowered by Christ to perform wedding ceremonies, esp. in a "worship service"?
Lol, Calvinists aren’t allowed to smile huh? God made those muscles just to screw with us? Tricky fella God is.
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