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There
is hardly a Christian family that directly or indirectly has not
known the pain of divorce. An important factor contributing to the
alarming escalation of divorce among Christians is the growing
acceptance of the societal view of marriage as a social contract
governed by the laws of the land rather than as a sacred covenant
regulated by the higher moral law of God.
In The Marriage Covenant Dr.
Samuele Bacchiocchi challenges Christians to reject the
secularization and easy-dissolution of marriage by accepting instead
the Biblical view of marriage as a sacred, life-long covenant. This
important book is designed to strengthen your Christian home through
a recovery of those Biblical principles established by God to ensure
happy and lasting marital relationships.
Some of the significant questions examined in
the book are: What guidance does the Bible offer on how to build up
a strong marriage covenant relationship? What is the Biblical role
of the husband and the wife? Does the Bible view the function of sex
as exclusively procreational or also as relational? Are there
Biblical grounds for divorce and remarriage? Is a Christian who
remarries guilty of continuous adultery? Should a minister marry
divorced people and should remarried people be accepted
automatically into church membership? These are some of the
questions examined with sound Biblical scholarship and in a style
that most people can understand. |
