Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
Scripture sometimes uses marital imagery for the relation between God and his chosen people. The Hebrew bible depicts God as the husband of Jerusalem. And the New Testament calls Jesus the bridegroom of the bride, the bride being the ecclesia. When a wife trashes and desecrates the good things — physical, emotional and spiritual things… Continue reading The unfaithful wife in Ezekiel 16 — applications and misapplications
In this post I will show that "one flesh" cannot mean indissoluble union. Genesis 2:24 says, Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. This verse is often called the creation ordinance of marriage. It is speaking about a stage when neither… Continue reading What does “one flesh” mean? Mutual commitment? Or indissoluble union?
