Just a note from the bible about marage.
There is a law in marage called the law of possession.
Now a negative person who isn't living right would say, Hah! Yeah, I know,
I am possessed by this evil person who is in turn possessed by the devil.
Pih! Marage, can't live with um, can't live without em. Beer beltch and a
routy round of laughter all round.
No No no.
This law of possession says, "They to shall become one flesh. This is so
profound now, this law of possession that in first Carinthians 7 it says
that when you get maried you don't even own your own body anymore. Your
body
becomes the ownership of your spouse not for the sake of abuse but for the
sake of use. Now, in this part of the teaching Jimmy Evans says sexual use
and he goes on to say that you can't even take your own body, when you get
married and hold it away from your spouse or the marage. This is true but
not just in sexual matters, your body is giving to this marage and if you
decide you just won't work as much or stop bringing things into the marage,
then you are withholding a contribution to your marage. Now, Jimmy says
some other stuff which is true, your body is property of your spouse to get
their sexual needs met. They depend on you for that and you can not
withhold it for whatever reason. Not to say that you can't discuss these
sorts of things and set up times and/or activities, but it is wrong to just
flat out withhold yourself from the marage.
You can not, likewise come into a marage and claim this is mine, I came in
with it, as is the case so many times with people who come from previous
relationships with children and such.
You are devoting yourself to the idea that you are now one with your spouse
when you marry. It is a very profound statement and the best way the bible
could find to convey what the bond of marage is.
The bible also says "they were both naked and unashamed.
Naked refers to what was on the outside of them and unashamed refers to what
was on the inside of them.
When sin came in to the garden, in came the first baggage in marage. Both
emotional and physical. The physical being that they began to cover the
outsides of themselves with fig leaves and the emotional being the attitudes
which came in.
God told Eav your desire will be for your husband but he will ruel over you.
This meant, you are going to try and control him and tell him what to do and
he is going to resent it and resist. He also cursed her with pain in
childbirth.
God cursed adam by saying Adam the fruit that came so easily from the ground
before, you are going to have to work by the sweat of your brow to get.
It is the opinion of Jimmy Evans that god would have had a different
response if Adam and Eav had responded differently when he confronted them
about what they had done.
He says that God plaied dumb to try and give them a chance to own up.
He claims that god knows all and that even before he came to them and asked
them what they had done he knew.
The account goes something along the lines of,
Adam and Eav heard the sound of the lord god walking in the garden and they
hid themselves because they were ashamed.
God called out to them, where are you?
God knew where they were.
He asks them, what is this you have done?Again he knew what they had done.
When he asks, why did you eat from the tree of knowledge after I told ya not
to?
Adam's response is, it was the woman, she told me to eat from it so I did.
Eav says it was the surpant who told her to eat of the tree.
So, the man says, the woman made me do it and the woman says the devil made
me do it.
Neither take responsibility and this is what Jimmy Evans says was god's
actual reason for cursing them.
What do you think?
I think it holds together pretty well.
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