Posted on 05/23/2021 5:47:44 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Church of Scotland’s General Assembly will soon consider a proposal to erase “husband” and “wife” from its official marriage ceremony.
Changing worldview and their inherent values are gradually bringing about a slow but accelerating fade of marriage as described in the Bible.
It’s not just the homosexual movement impacting the view of marriage, but the wide acceptance of pre- and non-marital sex even among purported Christians. In a 2020 survey, Pew Research found that forty-six percent—nearly half—of Evangelical Americans see no problem with sex outside of marriage, despite Bible teachings.
As a minister ordained in 1962, I can look back over the years and attest to the fact that the number of weddings I was asked to perform shrunk significantly.
Biblical instructions have faded into the searing flashes of one-night stands, common-law marriage, and casual couplings.
In addition, given the homosexual movement, “husband” and “wife” are awkward terms.
What civil governments do with marriage is public business, subject to the voters, However, civil government has no constitutional authority to order a church or a denomination of churches to alter their doctrines of marriage and sexual relationships.
Too often, however, governments do not have to give such mandates because there are churches who will bow to contemporary political correctness on their own, in the name of relevance.
Sadly, they are like ships who’ve lost their moorings in stormy seas, carried about by “every wind” of social change and tsunamis of politically correctness.
The Church of Scotland’s native land gave the world sturdy Christians like Saint Columba, John Knox, the Covenanters, Patrick Hamilton, David Livingston, Thomas Chalmers, Robert Murray McCheyne, Samuel Rutherford, Eric Liddell, and many other stalwarts of faith. Some suffered martyrdom rather than compromise.
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Disease, preganacy, and your conscience — the only problems.
At one time it was a visibly Christian church
in lieu of?
Spouse A and Spouse B.
Xi and xi.
might’s well be thing 1 and thing 2
Don’t they believe marriage is a sacrament established by Christ? Don’t they believe “male and female he created them...”? I thought this was a very basic aspect of any Christian religion?
A lot of churches are no longer Christian.
Scotland’s social decay is progressing ever faster than formerly great Britain’s.
This is what heresy and apostasy look like.
This is what heresy and apostasy look like.
There is also the Free Church of Scotland, which has remained conservative. It has been a small denomination (the “Wee Frees”), but may grow with the stampede leaving the Church of Scotland.
Sounds like a bit of good light in an increasingly dark land. Thanks 🤩
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? (Matthew 19:4-5)
And "a man" (ἄνθρωπος) shall cleave to "his wife" (γυναικὶ).
God ceased from his creative effort on the 7th day (Genesis 2:2). (Surely everyone who has tried to read thru the Bible has gotten to chapter 2 of the first book.) There He created only two sexes and has created no other sexes since.
God also condemns men lying with men as they would with a woman (Leviticus 20:13). It is still condemned in the NT (Romans 1:26-27). And those who practice such abominations are worthy of death in this life. The example of Sodom and Gomorrha also applies today (Jude 1:7).
Wallace must be turning in his grave.
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