Marriage 101 Part 1 (1 of 5)
Series: When Two Becomes One
Scott Maze
Ephesians 5:22
Back in the 1980s, Buckminster Fuller created what is known as the ''Knowledge Doubling Curve.'' Fuller was an author, architect, systems theorist, inventor, designer, and futurist, and again, he presented the idea of the ''Knowledge Doubling Curve.'' Fuller observed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled every century. By the end of World War II, the world´s combined knowledge was doubling every 25 years. IBM later published a report that by 2010, the world´s knowledge would be doubling every 11 hours.
Knowledge is growing faster than we can absorb. In some fields, what we learned five years ago is now obsolete. Now in a day when artificial intelligence is possible, are we still really going to a 2,000-year-old manual on the topic of marriage. Surely, we would be served well to turn our attention to the latest research on marriage, many would think. When it is new, it's thought to be true and what is old is antique and obsolete. While marriage experience and marriage research can help us, it's the time-honored truth of God's Word that we turn to.
Jesus' View of Marriage
When Jesus was asked about marriage, He always went back to the first marriage, the marriage of Adam and Eve. Jesus said this: ''But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.' 7 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate'' (Mark 10:6-9).
Jesus identifies two Rocky mountain peaks of granite truth that stand out against a backdrop of marital dysfunction of our day: 1) The two shall become one flesh and 2) what God has joined together, let no one separate. Those two bedrock principles of marriage are granite-like for all marriages everywhere. If we do turn an eye toward marriage research at secular ...
Series: When Two Becomes One
Scott Maze
Ephesians 5:22
Back in the 1980s, Buckminster Fuller created what is known as the ''Knowledge Doubling Curve.'' Fuller was an author, architect, systems theorist, inventor, designer, and futurist, and again, he presented the idea of the ''Knowledge Doubling Curve.'' Fuller observed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled every century. By the end of World War II, the world´s combined knowledge was doubling every 25 years. IBM later published a report that by 2010, the world´s knowledge would be doubling every 11 hours.
Knowledge is growing faster than we can absorb. In some fields, what we learned five years ago is now obsolete. Now in a day when artificial intelligence is possible, are we still really going to a 2,000-year-old manual on the topic of marriage. Surely, we would be served well to turn our attention to the latest research on marriage, many would think. When it is new, it's thought to be true and what is old is antique and obsolete. While marriage experience and marriage research can help us, it's the time-honored truth of God's Word that we turn to.
Jesus' View of Marriage
When Jesus was asked about marriage, He always went back to the first marriage, the marriage of Adam and Eve. Jesus said this: ''But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.' 7 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate'' (Mark 10:6-9).
Jesus identifies two Rocky mountain peaks of granite truth that stand out against a backdrop of marital dysfunction of our day: 1) The two shall become one flesh and 2) what God has joined together, let no one separate. Those two bedrock principles of marriage are granite-like for all marriages everywhere. If we do turn an eye toward marriage research at secular ...
There are 19009 characters in the full content. This excerpt only shows a 2000 character sample of the full content.
Price: $5.99 or 1 credit
