Jesus says he hates divorce and says we men need to love our wives, and wives need to respect their husbands. No sex before marriage is also clear and so wise. Let’s think how we can do better from that base by looking at Christian marriage and newlyweds. Translating for a marriage counselor, Chinese-English-Chinese, a wise American Christian older woman said to the young Chinese woman. “Do not give too much of yourself at the start of the marriage. Hold …
Except God. His command to be perfect is found in Matthew 5:48. Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Let’s look at 2 issues arising from such a bold statement of Jesus from which he does not apologize at all. Jesus says just before this that if we just look at a girl in lust, we have committed adultery. He says that if we are angry with a brother that is equal to murder. He sets the bar …
We are made in the image of God according to Gen 1:27: So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. We do well to remember that. Let me give an example or two to help us think. In the world, the people of the snowy north are much better off than southerners. Why? An Example To Illustrate The Philippines and Japan are both island nations in the West Pacific. In …
I have recently listened to an audio book by John Lennox called 7 Days that Divide the World. I will follow his argument in this blog. He notes miracles or singularites interchangeably for a reason. Read on. First, he notes that the Bible says: So when Copernicus said the earth moved in 1543, Christians pointed to such verses. Further, Christians noted that Joshua had the sun and moon stand still and not the earth. Even more so, they said if …
