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Sorry if my previous post potencially isn't clear. After writing at least 1.5h I can't look at it anymore. I need rest from it.

Nope. We now do things formal because doing it informal can create issues. If you do just a little look at sexual practice in Christendom, you will find a ton of informal marriages. In fact, most of them were informal which sometimes did...

Nicely done! Very thorough!

No, no. What does equal a marriage? If your sole example is of pagans trying to get Israel to intermarry, something they’re expressly forbidden from doing, then you have a very sparse Biblical support for marriage at all. What forms a marriage...

To your point, if you were interested in taking a job, it would be proceeded with a formal agreement of some sort. After both parties agree to it, then you would create a start date. If you then showed up two weeks before your start date and...

Loosely using the term marriage because marriage as the concept we understand, I don't remember actually being defined in the bible as we use it. It mostly being inferred as contextually a single word descriptor for exclusive sexual access...

Here it is. This is a good idea, now I will be able to put it in Kindle.

What makes a marriage? Agreement, without agreement there is no marriage. If a woman agrees to have sex for $20, that’s the sum total of the agreement. If she (and her father, if she is under his covering) agrees to have sex as the beginning...

I am not talking about formalities associated with human governments. I am speaking of the process we see in scripture. This has been rehashed over and over. Scripture is clear. A man who convinces a woman to sleep with him still has to get her...

To your point, if you were interested in taking a job, it would be proceeded with a formal agreement of some sort. After both parties agree to it, then you would create a start date. If you then showed up two weeks before your start date and...

To your point, if you were interested in taking a job, it would be proceeded with a formal agreement of some sort. After both parties agree to it, then you would create a start date. If you then showed up two weeks before your start date and...

Nicely done! Very thorough!

Since I'm in marriage = sex camp, I'm biased. But following must be taken in account. 1) Bible doesn't have word for sex. It has phrases. 2) Sex is never mentioned directly. So if marriage start with sex, it will never be mentioned directly...

No, no. What does equal a marriage? If your sole example is of pagans trying to get Israel to intermarry, something they’re expressly forbidden from doing, then you have a very sparse Biblical support for marriage at all. What forms a marriage...

This book is a forceful pro-polygamy polemic, arguing specifically for male polygyny: one husband having several wives. From the sections visible in the translation, the author treats marriage not as adultery or concubinage but as a lawful...