tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post8328679646392048176..comments2024-03-27T08:37:26.489-04:00Comments on Not Another Episcopal Church Blog: The Breakdown of the Family AnalogyUndergroundpewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-12059020604089989032009-02-11T19:45:00.000-05:002009-02-11T19:45:00.000-05:00Hi Underground Pewster,Yes, and the parallel to th...Hi Underground Pewster,<BR/><BR/>Yes, and the parallel to that is Matthew 19:1-9. And there the phrasing is: "is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?" <BR/><BR/>I googled it and found the source of my memory. The Rev. Dr. Instone-Brewer, a Senior Research Fellow in Rabbinics and the New Testament at Tyndale House, Cambridge, has done a lot of scholarly work to show that this "any cause" refers to a type of divorce permitted at the time.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16632860530530786486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-46345621857696850222009-02-11T18:58:00.000-05:002009-02-11T18:58:00.000-05:00Randall, you are spot on as usual.Randall, you are spot on as usual.Undergroundpewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-75957548714230526972009-02-11T18:57:00.000-05:002009-02-11T18:57:00.000-05:00P., you must be recalling today's lesson from Mark...P., you must be recalling today's lesson from Mark 10:1-16 where some new rules are spelled out,<BR/><BR/> "He left that place and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan. And crowds again gathered around him; and, as was his custom, he again taught them. <BR/> Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’ He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ They said, ‘Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.’ But Jesus said to them, 'Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.'"Undergroundpewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-60461850220929506712009-02-11T18:30:00.000-05:002009-02-11T18:30:00.000-05:00I am thinking that the desire for a real father is...I am thinking that the desire for a real father is present in the hearts of the fatherless children of our time. <BR/><BR/>Also, it is my understanding the there was something like "no fault" divorce in Jesus' time and it was called "any cause". If this is true, there may have been a lot of children of divorce in Jesus' time.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16632860530530786486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-43474996851641658462009-02-11T13:55:00.000-05:002009-02-11T13:55:00.000-05:00Radical Feminism's goal, as you correctly point ou...Radical Feminism's goal, as you correctly point out, is to eliminate all vestiges of the patriarchy. Of course, feminists view this solely as a power dynamic, a zero sum game, where power is exerted at the expense of those upon whom the power is exercised. This expresses itself culturally in the nuclear family, which is why the family has to go.<BR/><BR/>This has been the goal for a long, long time, and although it has been called "women's liberation" in truth, the truly liberated are men, who have been relieved of virtually all their responsibilities, i.e. love, loyalty, protection of mate and children, etc.<BR/><BR/>Of course, it is that experience of dealing with a strong, yet loving father as we are growing up which helps to to understand the First Person of the Trinity. It is not difficult to imagine how a child who rarely interacts with his/her own father, but merely with an endless parade of male companions for his/mother would have a hard time understanding a righteous, just God who loved us enough to assume human form to save us from our own folly. <BR/><BR/>In a sense, it reminds me of Orwell's warnings regarding language in <I>1984</I>. That is, take away words, the symbols of thoughts, and then the ability to formulate the thoughts disappears because they cannot be reduced or communicated via symbols.<BR/><BR/>Ditto "God the Father."<BR/><BR/>Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-37506628832428243572009-02-11T09:04:00.000-05:002009-02-11T09:04:00.000-05:00Meaty stuff here. I've got to work, but I will ret...Meaty stuff here. I've got to work, but I will return for a longer comment.<BR/><BR/>Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com