tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post2888207178939398931..comments2023-12-17T16:13:06.670-05:00Comments on In a Godward direction: Salisbury StakesTobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-36370378013228810992012-02-05T16:24:26.066-05:002012-02-05T16:24:26.066-05:00Thanks, bls. It is additionally odd that the churc...Thanks, bls. It is additionally odd that the church got trapped in this "taboo" mentality, since it is also exactly what Jesus had to deal with: sabbath and utensil regulations, rather than the truly moral issues of love and faithfulness and generosity.<br /><br />So true, Robert -- no one suggests that marriages should end at menopause, and Genesis 2 shows that marriage is primarily about companionship; procreation only comes with the fall... but let's not read too much into that!Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-72635404023228796772012-02-05T10:35:19.851-05:002012-02-05T10:35:19.851-05:00I find it strange that so many people think that m...I find it strange that so many people think that marriage is all about procreation - the command to 'be fruitful and multiply' is in Genesis 1, in the context of human dominion, and is never given in the Adam and Eve story - while the text (Gen 2:18-23) actually says that God split him in two to create a partner, because he wasn't too good on his own. It's about companionship and community, not procreation.<br /><br />Being fruitful and multiplying is surely about the fact that humans can't exercise donimion over the earth without filling it. On human, or the odd couple, couldn't manage very much of it on their own.Robert Brenchleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-73868368961140421772012-02-05T09:44:24.101-05:002012-02-05T09:44:24.101-05:00What's really ironic, to me, is that as far as...What's really ironic, to me, is that as far as I can see, "fidelity" is <i>the</i> primary Biblical virtue, start to finish. <br /><br />And of course, it's the central feature of Christian marriage as well, in the requirement for monogamy. Not surprising at all, this, to me, since this temporal act of fidelity models the spiritual type.<br /><br />What's happened to the church is really very funny, in fact. Gay rights came along and surprised everybody - me included, in the speed at which things have happened! But instead of simply folding gay partnerships into the marriage mix, with its requirement of fidelity, the speed of events just blew the Church's collective mind, and it's now arguing the weirdest collection of stuff one can possibly imagine - that "the heterosexual <i>act</i>" is the <i>real</i> marker of marriage. <br /><br />It's only going to get weirder, too, as far as I can tell....blsnoreply@blogger.com