Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Where's the example?
Halfway listening to EWTN talking about Mary as a model for marriage.
Convective thought: Properly functioning churches try to keep properly functioning monogamous marriages together. In the modern world this is the PRIMARY job of religion. LDS seems to do the job well. Most other churches fail.
But where is marriage in the Bible? Adam and Eve had several sons but weren't married. Most of the main characters of the Old Testament were polygamous. Mary was married to Joseph, but Jesus was the product of some other babydaddy. Jesus wasn't married, and seems to have been running a homosexual cult. His disciples told us that marriage MUST be permanent (which is contrary to Natural Law)... but none of them were married. Not to females anyway.
Among the major characters in OT and NT, only Abraham was definitely married to one wife.
Not a good set of examples for the primary task of modern churches.
¶ 4:08 AM 
