{"id":10530,"date":"2019-07-11T16:10:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2019-07-11T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:44:02","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day-or-the-christian-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10530","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet for the day, &#8212; OR &#8212;<br>The Christian marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have I ever mentioned that, taking instruction from a 1<sup>st<\/sup>-Century cult, modern Southern Baptists don&#8217;t actually approve of marriage?  I think so.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Do not marry anyone unless you believe that he or she will help you be more devoted to Christ and more effective as his witness. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UY7XQOh2Hb\">https:\/\/t.co\/UY7XQOh2Hb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/1149136727862382592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Linger on that thought for a while, think about what is being said: Marriage is an instrument for serving the cult; it is not &#8212; <i>NOT<\/i> &#8212; about building together the satisfying lives you and your spouse want.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder evangelicals have the highest divorce rate in society.<\/p>\n<p>I say again, then: If pleasing an Invisible Wizard who lives in the sky is the most important thing in your life, then &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>You are a fool &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Who is committing a fraud against your spouse, and &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Not actually married at all.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.russellmoore.com\/2010\/09\/16\/should-i-marry-my-non-christian-pregnant-girlfriend-my-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russell Moore<\/a>, y&#8217;all will be comforted to learn, has the answer: Fools ought to marry only other fools.  From advice given to a Christian man who has got his non-Christian girlfriend pregnant, and wonders what he ought to do.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you were merely dating this woman I would counsel you to immediately end the relationship. But the situation is, of course, more complicated than that.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>The question here is not whether you will be yoked unequally with an unbeliever. You are. The question is whether you can or should get out of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well &#8230; I don&#8217;t know.  After all, <i>she<\/i> doesn&#8217;t claim to be godly, and isn&#8217;t the one who <i>does<\/i> claim to be godly, fooled around anyway, and then went looking to Russell Moore for help getting off the hook.<\/p>\n<p>It looks to me as if the question ought to be this: Should <i>she<\/i> marry this sniveling li&#8217;l hypocrite? &#8212; and on first impression, the answer is &#8230; No.  But, then, I am well-known to be extremely wicked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have I ever mentioned that, taking instruction from a 1st-Century cult, modern Southern Baptists don&#8217;t actually approve of marriage? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10530\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10537,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions\/10537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}