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He wrote a very carefully balanced work, De Bono Congiuali — “On the good of marriage” — which is full of things we might not like today: about how sinful people are, and how sinful Adam and Eve were, but hung on to the idea that marriage is actually part of God’s creation. It’s not something satanic; it’s not something caused by ...
Feb 13, 2024 · Though the topic is debated endlessly, in truth the question cannot be answered. We do know, however, that from ancient times Christians interpreted its passionate love as the love of the individual believer—or the church—for Christ.
Jul 30, 2023 · The pressure to get married — A personal story. As someone who grew up in the evangelical system, I can testify to the fact that the pressure to get married is well and truly real. The first time...
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Personally, I think an awful lot of things are wrong with TPT, but before I get onto that, let me say something up front. I dont know Brian Simmons personally, but he seems to me like a genuine, gifted, intelligent and godly man with a passion for Jesus, who has put his best work into a project for years, in order to serve the church. He has worked...
a. This example comes from the promotional website. In Gal 2:19, hina theō zēsō, which simply means that I might live for God, has been translated as so that I can live for God in heavens freedom. To be clear: there is no indication whatsoever in the Greek of that sentence, or the rest of the chapter, that either heaven or its freedom are in view ...
3. It is translated by one man. The major translations are all worked on by committees of experts, partly to avoid the risks of idiosyncratic decisions, personal hobby-horses or controversial convictions (see below) being smuggled into the text. They debate specific words and clauses in detail, sometimes for hours, in order to make sure that they h...
4. The much-vaunted Aramaic approach to translation is built on very shaky foundations. The publishers make the bizarre claim that one of the unique benefits of The Passion Translation is that it has recovered this often-neglected language by consulting these ancient biblical manuscripts, (as if other translations didnt use Aramaic manuscripts when...
Jun 7, 2018 · Clergy are solemnizing fewer and fewer marriages. Instead, couples are turning to civil magistrates or even loved ones who obtain credentials. In 2009, 29 percent of couples had a friend or...
We both believed in Jesus heading into our marriage, and we had both experienced his love for us, but our marriage has been an opening into an even deeper love. Perhaps we’ve experienced the beginnings of what von Balthasar suggests: human love leading to the experience of divine love, which in turn only deepens and enriches human love.
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The real reason for a “church wedding” is to celebrate a solemn Sacrament. Since marriage is a Sacrament, the Catholic Church requests that it be celebrated within a sacred place – a church. That is why we celebrate weddings in the same building that we celebrate the Sacraments of Baptism, Holy Communion and Reconciliation.
