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What makes a marriage? Agreement, without agreement there is no marriage. If a woman agrees to have sex for $20, that’s the sum total of the agreement. If she (and her father, if she is under his covering) agrees to have sex as the beginning...

I am not talking about formalities associated with human governments. I am speaking of the process we see in scripture. This has been rehashed over and over. Scripture is clear. A man who convinces a woman to sleep with him still has to get her...

To your point, if you were interested in taking a job, it would be proceeded with a formal agreement of some sort. After both parties agree to it, then you would create a start date. If you then showed up two weeks before your start date and...

To your point, if you were interested in taking a job, it would be proceeded with a formal agreement of some sort. After both parties agree to it, then you would create a start date. If you then showed up two weeks before your start date and...

Nicely done! Very thorough!

Since I'm in marriage = sex camp, I'm biased. But following must be taken in account. 1) Bible doesn't have word for sex. It has phrases. 2) Sex is never mentioned directly. So if marriage start with sex, it will never be mentioned directly...

No, no. What does equal a marriage? If your sole example is of pagans trying to get Israel to intermarry, something they’re expressly forbidden from doing, then you have a very sparse Biblical support for marriage at all. What forms a marriage...

This book is a forceful pro-polygamy polemic, arguing specifically for male polygyny: one husband having several wives. From the sections visible in the translation, the author treats marriage not as adultery or concubinage but as a lawful...

The retreat center is FULL! We are very excited to have so many families and singles make it this year. Unfortunately, due to the size of the meeting room at this facility, we cannot have off site guests attend this year. We appreciate your...

The retreat center is FULL! We are very excited to have so many families and singles make it this year. Unfortunately, due to the size of the meeting room at this facility, we cannot have off site guests attend this year. We appreciate your...

Now be intellectually honest and examine the holes is sex does not equal marriage argument. Because if sex doesn’t equal marriage, then what does?

Wow, some things don’t change do they? When was this guy writing?

Here is one controversial quote that got some discussion. "Since there are indeed many kinds of servitude, I know not whether any can be called more severe and detestable than that domestic slavery by which a head of a household submits to his...

This book is a forceful pro-polygamy polemic, arguing specifically for male polygyny: one husband having several wives. From the sections visible in the translation, the author treats marriage not as adultery or concubinage but as a lawful...

This book is a forceful pro-polygamy polemic, arguing specifically for male polygyny: one husband having several wives. From the sections visible in the translation, the author treats marriage not as adultery or concubinage but as a lawful...