So when Jesus says that we must be born of Water and Spirit, and if you believe and are baptized you will be saved, I agree with you that in a strict sense God does the saving and we need only immerse (baptize) ourselves in the grace he offers us, I believe that the statement Jesus
made about marriage to be applicable, «Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate» and echo Peter's rhetorical question, «Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water?
I believe that this debate we are having is an expected outcome of earlier mistakes we have
made about marriage and sexuality.
When I tell people the whole story,
they make it all about my marriage, and it's not about that.
A stray remark in childhood a parent
makes about marriage, or gays or even «fat» people can be the makings of a severe conflict decades later.
Not exact matches
Biderman was a relentless publicity hound, publishing a book
about marriage, posing for unfortunate pictures, and saying many things he probably wishes he hadn't, such as: «We have done a really great job of
making sure our data is kept secret.»
When the company acquired LinkedIn for $ 26.2 billion in 2016, PCMag
made several predictions
about the ways in which a Microsoft and LinkedIn
marriage could work, like Microsoft leveraging LinkedIn in order to give users access to expertise within Microsoft apps, such as Word and PowerPoint.
The result of his own seemingly perfect
marriage making him think
about whether something was missing?
While my
marriage didn't last, Carolyne and I are very close friends to this day and talk often
about this defusing process and the way it continues to
make our lives and our relationships better.
Most people will tolerate just
about anything — a bad
marriage, an intrusive government, a horrible boss, a job that they hate — if only that thing can
make them feel more secure.
Yet his opponents warned that his hawkish foreign policy views and negative comments
about gay
marriage and Muslims
made him ill - equipped to serve as a diplomat or to represent the U.S. on the world stage.
About two years ago, my wife, Minhee, and I
made one of the hardest decisions we've
made thus far in our
marriage and in our calling as parents.
Nevertheless, this current situation described earlier
makes us reflect, and, as pastors, we are worried
about the fact that many people who contract
marriage are formally Christians, since they have received baptism, but are not practicing the Christian faith at all; not just liturgically, but also existentially.
There is nothing
about having diverse perspectives in a
marriage that will
make it inherently better — in fact, it may be less likely to succeed in the long run.
My life was turned upside down a couple years back in a situation that led to the dissolution of my
marriage, I also work in animal rescue, which brings me constant anxiety that animals I know and care
about may not
make it, and frequently the actual crushing pain of losing them.
More generally, I think we need to
make a simple change in the way we talk
about marriage.
A general taboo
about procreating outside the context of
marriage, yes, but no extended analysis was really necessary while there was only one way to
make a baby.
The best part
about living in a secular country is that religious opinions of
marriage are irrelevant to the legal definition as «Congress shall
make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»
Gay
marriage makes it increasingly hard even to talk
about what is essential to true
marriage.
CS Lewis never wrote
about gay
marriage (as far as I know) but his comments on governments
making laws
about divorce are applicable to the issue.
To hold that same - sex
marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly
made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special
about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.
Their lived experience of the effects of contraception, abortion, divorce, and infidelity on their generation has
made them passionate
about the need for our entire culture - not only Catholics - to embrace the challenge andauthentic freedom embodied in the fullness of the Church's teaching on
marriage, family, and sexuality.
Do you believe I would
make up a story
about him telling me that I would basically need to accept Vivien as his mistress in order for me to save our
marriage?
The love that comes with
marriage is
about commitment and sacrifice, and if you feel committed enough to
make marriage work when money gets tight, then go for it.
'» All in all, the book
makes fascinating reading, and should be studied by those who want to discover more
about the present configurations of
marriage among Christians of all denominations.
People often remark that I am «so open» online (usually with a bit of wonderment or «Oh, I could NEVER do that» particularly when I write
about marriage)-- and I have to chuckle because if they only knew how little of my life
makes it online.
These questions
make it clear that the moral truths
about marriage, available to reason and faith alike, form a very tight web indeed.
After all, redefining
marriage to
make it simply
about emotional companionship sends the signal that moms and dads are interchangeable.
To
make your claim, that the recorded statements of Jesus say nothing
about gay
marriage, you're trusting the authority of the four gospels — but not the rest of the New Testament.
Long before there was a debate
about same - sex anything, far too many people bought into a liberal ideology
about sexuality that
makes a mess of
marriage: Cohabitation, no - fault divorce, extra-marital sex, non-marital childbearing, massive consumption of pornography and the hook - up culture all contributed to the breakdown of our
marriage culture.
What is remarkable is how quickly the need of the church to
make ethical judgments on many problems entered into the shaping of the tradition, as appears to have happened with the modification of Jesus» word
about marriage and the injunctions concerning the handling of disputes (Matthew 19: 7ff.
«I want to hear a song
about the breakdown in your
marriage, I want to hear songs of justice, I want to hear rage at injustice and I want to hear a song so good that it
makes people want to do something
about the subject.»
However it
makes sense if we think not only
about whether sex will contaminate the integrity of the Missouri House but also
about if sex will contaminate the personal integrity of the Missouri legislators, since sex within
marriage is fundamentally legitimate.
He would say to us today, likely, that we should relax
about making laws
about how folks that are different from us might be allowed to have legal standing such as
marriage would provide.
Are you really that mad that I just refuted your ridiculous assertion that you
made about Jesus never talking
about marriage.
Over the past year, a few friends and I have had an open conversation
about the highs and lows of
marriage — specifically how to
make the most of the high times and avoid the low ones.
At a press conference last week he was asked
about his views on same - sex
marriage and how to
make Church relevant to modern - day life.
The main thing
about the extended analysis of contraception, same - sex
marriage and such is that it
made Romney look resolutely conservative.
What will Synod 2015 say to the world that will
make the world think again
about marriage and the family, before these two essential building - blocks of civilization are further dismantled and traduced?
He writes
about the practical response that Catholics could
make to the current attack on
marriage.
This baloney
about how it's necessary to get «accurate census data» being a reason to
make a distinction between same - s # x and straight
marriage is one of the dumbest pieces of crap I've read here in a long time - and that's really saying something.
The health changes your pastor
made due to conviction
about his eating and fitness habits is just as important as the ways he's grown in his
marriage.
Catholic
Marriage The good points
about marital preparation that Robert Spaemann
makes in «Divorce and Remarriage» (August / September) are obscured by some important insensitivities.
If
marriage is only for procreation then there are a whole slew of other considerations to
make like what
about hetero - couples choosing not to have kids or physically unable.
The United Reformed Church has not yet
made a decision
about marriages of same - sex couples — the issue will be debated at the denomination's General Assembly this July.
Most important are the notable series of statements Francis has been
making on topics which bear directly on the family — the proper formation of conscience, the prophetic nature of Humanae Vitae, the true meaning of the sensus fidelium, and the need for bishops to preach the truth
about the indissolubility of
marriage, in season and out.
But please, for the love, don't leave a child and a community that was depending on you in a bind so you can
make a point
about gay
marriage.
[12] Moreover, considerations
about possible changes in circumstances in the future are not allowed to count when
making marriage vows: «Marriage conditioned on a future event can not be validly contracted» (Canon
marriage vows: «
Marriage conditioned on a future event can not be validly contracted» (Canon
Marriage conditioned on a future event can not be validly contracted» (Canon 1102.1).
Concerned that the civility and decorum exhibited by many LGBT rights advocates might
make their arguments more persuasive, Anyabwile suggests that the key to «winning» the same - sex
marriage debate is speak more graphically
about gay sex in order to induce the «gag reflex.»
So yesterday's post was
about all the troubled
marriages making news this week, and because I like to include a graphic with each piece, I went to stock.xchng to get a free stock photo to use.
One would never guess, furthermore, from Wolterstorff's presentation that contemporary advocates of
marriage as irreducibly procreative have also thought deeply
about the reality of
marriage past childbearing age,
about infertility and contraception, and offered sophisticated responses that
make laugh lines like Wolterstorff's seem entirely facile.