The Argument Room From time to time commenters, who by virtue of their arguments, deserve a place here in the argument room. Our inaugural commenter is whysoserious?, a stalwart who has previously graced this puddle and inspired several posts. He faded into the woodwork after the last episode, but he’s back again with […]
More Objections “If sex = marriage why does Deuteronomy 22:28-29 specifically state the virgin only becomes the wife if they are found out. In that vein why does it further state she shall be his wife because he humbled her. Why would God need to specify that if as you say she was his […]
Toad has been questioning his assumptions. As a result… I believe that up until now I have been wrong with regard to my exegesis on the issue of becoming one flesh as mentioned in Genesis 2:24. Whereas previously I believed the one flesh bond between man and woman was the result of marriage to a […]
The Christian Manosphere blogger Deep Strength has gone the way of churchians and decided the most fundamental aspects of family cannot be discussed. The definition of marriage and divorce. A post was made on his blog about “Sexless Marriage and Other Relationship Statistics” (PDF). I pointed out that it’s meaningless because the definition of both […]
How Does A Man Commit To Marriage? We know that Scripture is the best interpreter of Scripture and we’ve already seen that the Hebrew word “dabaq” as used in Genesis 2:24 means sex. But that’s a special meaning, just for that passage, because everywhere else that the word “dabaq” is used in the Bible (for […]
The past few days have been amusing, as commenter whysoserious? has provided enormous entertainment. While probably not apparent to the casual reader, the reason is simple. He followed the script perfectly. My position is the truth of what Scripture actually says. The Hebrew word “dabaq” as used in Genesis 2:24 means sex. We know this […]
You just can’t make this stuff up. Really. Commenter whysoserious? presented a rather interesting argument. It was rather long and I wanted to address it so I turned it into a post all its own. That continued in the comments and he finally narrowed things and presented the argument. It was fascinating, actually. In fact, […]
Commenter whysoserious? dropped an interesting protest the other day and again I decided to turn the response into a post because his arguments are sophisticated enough that it takes a bit of effort to nail down exactly what he’s saying and respond on point. [Pleasant introduction omitted] That said, I do believe you are mistaken […]
“Sex doesn’t make you married. There must be a ceremony!” They say you can’t fight tradition and of all the things I’ve written about, the one thing that gets the most negative response is stating that under certain conditions just having sex, regardless of intentions, can and will make the two married. “Sex makes you […]
Today we look at one of the special passages of the New Testament, 1st Corinthians 6:12-17. Contained in this passage is one of the most interesting and informative passages in the New Testament, verses 14-16. First, the text: All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for […]