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Adultery: does It BreAk the MArrIAge Bond? (2) John Hooper 2. Adultery and Death "A Heinous Crime" It is sometimes said that the cause for the breakdown of marriages, of the family and of society at large is man's sinful human nature. Of course that is true, but our sinful nature does not excuse us
Adultery: does It BreAk the MArrIAge Bond? (1) John Hooper 1. Marriage and the Sexual Union Adultery: The Popular View Among Reformed and evangelical Christians today there is one view of divorce and remarriage that dominates. It is the view that marriage can be dissolved not only by the death of a
Adultery applies to what the catechism in Answer 108 calls holy wedlock. Adultery is sin in and against holy wedlock, that is, marriage. And adultery is serious. An Israelite might not know the seriousness of adultery based on the behavior of the wicked Canaanites. We might not know the serious
So the greatest importance that you and I take our lead from the commandment itself to the understanding of uncleanness and the uncleanness of adultery. It's a very striking thing that we must begin not with what is unclean, not with what is immoral, but what is pure. What is pure and what is c
The sin of adultery is the sin of betraying your spouse by having sex with another person who is not your spouse. In order to understand that, we need to go back to the beginning and see that God created sex in the beginning as a beautiful part of human life. And He did that when He made human
Adultery is treachery, violence committed against one with whom you’ve been joined in covenant (Mal. 2:14). It violates one’s own body and the body of another (1 Cor. 6:18–20). It is probably with great sorrow that Solomon reflected on the truth of his own proverb late in his life: “Whoso committet
In the strict sense of the word, adultery is the violation of the marriage relationship. It is the unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed. It is the introduction of a third party, or eyen of third parties, into the exclusive union of man and wife. It is sexual intercourse by a marrie
And this commandment pertains to us then whether we are still single or whether we are married. We have seen that in the second table of the law, God begins with the duties that we owe to our parents. Honor your father and your mother. Because our parents are our closest neighbors from the momen
Adultery is not kept in secret today; but instead of blushing when it becomes known, today there are those who boldly and openly boast of their sexual filth, without the slightest blush. No, they boast about their breaking the “old, outdated life style.” Today women do not blush, have red faces and
When adultery is committed, there are many who are wronged. There is the woman who is taken in adultery. There is her husband who has been defrauded. And, Solomon states, there is the soul of the adulterer which cannot be soothed with many gifts. Husbands and wives, you must keep yourselves pure fro