#30 Questions about marriage
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The Importance of One Man, One Woman for Life
In the Old Testament, there's all sorts of shenanigans going on about marriage and stuff. But in the New Testament, part of the point of the gospel is that we are supposed to be in some way or other people of the new creation. That means one man, one woman for life. And so why not? And Malachi says, no, absolutely not. Stay faithful to the wife of your youth. Now, the permissions that are then given, which are permissions rather than commands, in Matthew, in the Sermon on the Mount, and then again in Matthew 19,. It's in the case of unchasticity, presumably adultery or some other sexual misbehavior of whatever it is
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