The golden idea of marriage

If there was not a golden age of marriage, there was at least a golden idea of marriage, based upon Christian teaching.

What is that teaching? An excellent summary is in just three sentences of the teaching of Jesus. To quote from Mark 10:6-8:

At the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one.

In this we see the critical order of marriage formation. A man must leave, he must join with his wife, and they must become one. Of course, the wife must do the same. She must leave her father and mother, she must be united to her husband, and become one with him.

In Christian teaching, sex is the crowning joy of an intimate relationship; but it comes last, after the leaving and the cleaving – the uniting of two into one

In that, there is profound wisdom. The act of leaving is essential. Men and women need to leave behind their family of origin, need to leave their parents and establish something new. Lees verder →

HURLBURT INDUSTRY — The 25-year-old airman energized not too long ago together with the Oct 2020 rape of an 11-year-old Alabama girl satisfied the sufferer through the digital dating software Badoo, according to an affidavit recorded in Alabama’s Morgan region District legal.

In addition in line with the affidavit, the prey’s mothers failed to discover the alleged rape until four months later, whenever the girl daddy intercepted a buddy request uploaded of the people charged in the event — environment energy Senior Airman Keith Williams of a Hurlburt Field servicing squadron — on a Facebook webpage the father got create time before for their three kiddies. The page’s profile included a photo for the three offspring.

The sufferer’s grandfather noticed the friend demand Feb. 12, and posing as their 11-year-old girl, responded by asking, “manage I’m sure you?”

According to research by the affidavit, Williams responded with “(identity redacted) from Badoo?” He went on to spell it out just what sufferer had been dressed in regarding the nights the incident and information regarding the yard of this lady house. Lees verder →