How, pray tell, do you find a woman who believes as we and Ray do??
How, pray tell, do you find a woman who believes as we and Ray do??
How, pray tell, do you find a woman who believes as we and Ray do??
Impossible? I don't think so gk. Dolly Parton fulfills that scripture quite nicely, although I don't know if she is converted.
I wasn't trying to be poetic, just funny. I went back to my post and entered an emoticon ;D just in case someone has a humor I.Q. deficit.
Dear John:
I checked with my people and have been informed there is absolutely no chance of an 'humor IQ deficit' here.
Can't speak for others.
Nonetheless, I'll see your emoticon.......................and raise you 5.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Is there a limit?
gk
I hope that it is OK that I write and try to express my confusion and wondering at such a statement. I can only guess that such a statement arises from the “except for fornication” statements in Matthew 5:32 and Matthew 19:9. Perhaps it is not wise for me to make a guess so please correct me if necessary.
Now she is remarried so he is free to remarry and longs for the intimacy and companionship.
from “WHAT IS MARRIAGE? . . . . . . . . . . . . . Biblestudy Feb. 2007”
Espousal was as legally binding as marriage. Did you know that? It was as legally binding as marriage itself. When you were espoused or betrothed to another, the way it was done in Israel, you could call that woman your wife and she could call you, officially and legally, her husband. But you couldn’t sleep together until you were fully married.
When you were espoused to one another it had a covenant contract all by itself, before the wedding ceremony and the nuptials, which was another set of oaths and promises and covenants. The way it worked was it was confirmed by oaths with a friend or a legal representative for the bridegroom and the bride was represented by her parents.
What we would call this today is an engagement, I guess. Engaged means we’re already determined we want to be married, we just haven’t done it yet, though it’s similar to that. But in Israel it was a little more legal. Today you can say, ‘I’m sorry honey, but here’s your ring back, I’m out of here. And it’s all over, you don’t have to get an espousal divorce.
[That’s like Mary and Joseph.] That’s why people don’t understand it, he (Joseph) calls her his wife and she (Mary) calls him her husband. People say, ‘how can that be, they are not even married.’ They were legally espoused and you can say husband and wife. Mary and Joseph, they were considered husband and wife before they married.
Am I being too hard on myself?
That our lives are planned before we are created and any choices we make
aren't really choices at all but merely the carrying out of our destiny. We don't have free will.