A question about adultery (1)

The following e-mail correspondence took place in October of 2009 (slightly edited for readability): Hello– I’ll intersperse my comments below. But before I do, I need to say that since I do not know what your beliefs are, then I do not know if you are truly a Christian or not. And since I do [...]

Heinrich Bullinger on the seventh commandment (1)

Once again, not a blanket-endorsement of Bullinger as a true Christian. “In this precept is forbidden fornication, or that kind of whorehunting, which is said to be the meddling of a single man with an unmarried woman. This kind of whoredom is thought of many either to be a very small offence, or none at [...]

Marriage as a Divine institution

The following is quite interesting. I found it while doing a google book word search. The following are excerpts from “The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer,” Volume XLIX for the year 1780. I’ll be interspersing my comments, the Lord willing. ABSTRACT OF THE REV. MR. MADAN’s DISSERTATION ON MARRIAGE AS A DIVINE INSTITUTION. I [...]

John Colquhoun on 1 Corinthians 6:16

I found this quote from a google books word search: “He also represents it to them as a selfevident principle, that he who is joined in affection and criminal conversation to an harlot, is one body with her. “What! know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two [...]

Caused to commit adultery

“The early Christian writers’ interpretation of the divorce texts remained the standard view of the church in the West until the sixteenth century when Erasmus suggested a different view that was adopted by Protestant theologians” (Heth & Wenham, Jesus and Divorce, p.73). In other words, the view of the so-called “early church” was that ALL [...]

John Piper: Thoughts on the New Calamity

On June 30, 2011 John Piper blogged a short article entitled, “My Eyes Shed Streams of Tears” — Thoughts on the New Calamity. Here is an excerpt from the article: My sense is that we do not realize what a calamity is happening around us. The new thing —- new for America, and new for [...]

“More on Old School Marriage” (Doug Wilson)

==More on Old School Marriage Culture and Politics – Sex and Culture Written by Douglas Wilson Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:27 am My recent post on old school marriage has generated some questions about the biblical necessity of marriage vows. I had argued that a marriage is constituted when two elements are both present — [...]

Doug Wilson on “old school” marriage.

Something recent by Wilson that I wanted to comment on. ==Sexual Intercourse, Old School Culture and Politics – Sex and Culture Written by Douglas Wilson Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:34 am In order to do a better job defending marriage we have to do a better job defining it. What is marriage anyway? Because false [...]

Ursinus on fornication

In Ursinus’ commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism he says that, “Fornication takes place when those that are unmarried have connection with each other. Magistrates ought by virtue of their office to punish severely fornication and adultery” (p. 591). Well, if two Christians marry by having connection with each other and they NEVER marry in the [...]

Unduly joining together–comments on Heth and Wenham

“What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Let it not be! We who died to sin, how shall we still live in it?” (Romans 6:1-2) “For certain men stole in, those of old having been written before to this judgment, ungodly ones perverting the grace of our God [...]