The Origin or Marriage Like all of God’s laws, those regarding manhood and womanhood are part of a non contradictory and coherent unified whole. In this section we’re going to look at four factors relative to men and women that are so tightly linked and interrelated by God that they can’t rightly be considered apart from one another. They are marriage, single life, male authority, and sexuality. We’ll begin with marriage, because that’s where God laid the foundation for all righteous interactions between men and women. It’s good to look at marriage first because it’s impossible to understand the role…
God commands us to honor the sanctity of life – it’s part of loving God and others and a recognition of the uniqueness and value of humans in God’s eyes. Man is unique because God created him in his own image. That alone is enough to impart value, but God has also shown he values man in other ways. he gave him dominion over all earthly creatures (Gen. 1:26) and sent his own Son to die for our sins, so those who believe in him may inherit eternal life. Our lives are neither our own nor anyone else’s–they belong to…
False worldviews demonstrate God’s sovereignty Jesus said the great and foremost commandment was “…You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind…” (Matt. 22:37). It’s a restatement of the sense of the first four of the Ten Commandments, which deal with man’s obligation to God. Those who love God won’t honor false gods or idols or take God’s name in vain. Rather, they will love him, worship him, and glorify him as the One and only true God. To love God above all else is man’s greatest obligation…