Description
This book is designed to give Biblical guidance through the problems associated with marriage, divorce, and remarriage. This is
NOT to be construed as counsel to marry, divorce, remarry, or abstain from such commitments in any particular individual case.
Everyone has a different situation, so competent legal counsel should be sought in dealing with the legalities of our society. This
manual is NOT to be construed as counseling for any particular person any more than a book on good health would be considered
competent medical “counsel” or diagnosis for a particular person who is ill. Seek competent counsel for any condition you feel is
detrimental to your health, well-being or legal situation. For your spiritual counsel, see your pastor and the ruling elders of a church
where the Word of God is honored for what it is…the inerrant and inspired Word of the Triune God.
This is NOT a manual designed as a particularized critique of any person, church, denomination or group unless actually named.
“What God hath joined together let not man put asunder.”
Introduction to the Marriage Plague… 5
Chapter 1: Plague Needs “Terrain” 22
Chapter 2: Fallout from the “Married Estate” 30
Chapter 3: The “Picture” 58
Chapter 4: Two is Better Than One 93
Chapter 5: But Why Has This Problem Been So Difficult? 104
Chapter 6: The Real Rome Christians Faced 118
Chapter 7: The Early Church – Destroying the Things We Built 141
Chapter 8: Troublesome Definitions -Can you Define Marriage
from the Bible? 188
Chapter 9: What the Early Church Missed About Sex… 193
Chapter 10: Sex… and the Mystery of Christ 212
Chapter 11: “Fornication” as the Sole Ground for Divorce? 218
Chapter 12: “Marriage is Slavery” (?) Polygamy is … (?) 260
Chapter 13: The Gospels and Divorce 284
Chapter 14: Sex, Marriage and Other “Necessary Evils”(?) 291
Chapter 15: “No Divorce!” 326
Chapter 16: The Cloistering of Christ and His Church 339
Chapter 17: The Fall in the Garden of Eden 352
Chapter 18: The Real “Problem” is Found in the Old Testament 387
Chapter 19: Rebecca’s Solution, Ezra’s Fear 422
Chapter 20: The Law and the Crisis in Interpretation – Reconciling
Old and New Testaments 432
Chapter 21: Reasons Christian People “In Love” … Break Up 4434
Chapter 22: Further Examination of Interpretation and
Its Problems 487
Chapter 23: Why there? 523
Chapter 24: David and Bathsheba (I) -The Criminal
Act of Adultery 537
Chapter 25: David and Bathsheba (II) -Tragedy Redeemed 554
Chapter 26: Incontinence 567
Chapter 27: The Nude Prostitute 579
Endnotes 601-618
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