{"id":6501,"date":"2010-01-11T07:06:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T12:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/11\/marriage-and-divorce-1\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T07:06:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T12:06:49","slug":"marriage-and-divorce-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/11\/marriage-and-divorce-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage and Divorce 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"WeddingRing.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve discussed divorce on this blog, and it is a topic I believe is important for a blog like this, and I was just waiting for something to spark interest \u2026 and it arrived in the mail the other day: William F. Luck\u2019s Divorce and Re-Marriage: Recovering the Biblical View<\/a>\"\"
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I\u2019d like to do a series on this topic, and the series is shaped for churches and pastors who are forming \u201cstatements\u201d and \u201cpolicies\u201d for their churches. (At least that is the group I have in mind.)<\/div>\n
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What kind of \u201cunion\u201d is marriage? Would you say it is \u201cpermanent\u201d and \u201cindissoluble\u201d or would you say it is \u201ccovenanted\u201d and \u201cpromissory\u201d and \u201cintentional\u201d but that, due to sin in this world, can be broken (therefore not permanent)?<\/b><\/div>\n
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Luck begins his book by examining Genesis 2:24: \u201cThat is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

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One can say that the \u201cstandard\u201d view \u2014 or the \u201cdefault\u201d view \u2014 of this \u201cunites\u201d or \u201cunion\u201d is that it is a permanent, ontological union. Luck contends this default view, and the use of words like ontological union, deserve more careful thinking to see what the Bible really does teach.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n


\nIn chp 1 of Luck\u2019s book \u2014 and I want to say that Luck is not not trying to minimize marriage but is instead trying to frame a biblical understanding of both marriage and divorce \u2014 an argument is given that the the union is not ontological or permanent.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n


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In other words, the word \u201cunites\u201d (\u201ccleaves\u201d) does not describe a permanent union or an ontological union but an intended union<\/i>. He has extensive study of this term in the Bible. \u00a0Marriage is a profound union of individual persons. It is an organic union (\u201cone flesh\u201d is not a third thing but the organic union) that stresses bonding and intimacy and consummates a social-legal contract. Divorce, he argues, is a tragedy and another tragedy is that humans have so been preoccupied with the \u201clegalities\u201d of marriage and divorce that they have focused on the wrong thing.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Marriage is intended to last until death; but that is God\u2019s intent and it is the intent of the married couple, but intention and fact must be distinguished. Luck does not think that the Bible teaches the union is \u201cpermanent\u201d or \u201contological.\u201d Again, it is intended to last but that intention is not equivalent to an ontological permanence.<\/div>\n
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The emphasis then for Luck is intentionality instead of ontoloy.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve discussed divorce on this blog, and it is a topic I believe is important for a blog like this, and I was just waiting for something to spark interest \u2026 and it arrived in the mail the other day: William F. Luck\u2019s Divorce and Re-Marriage: Recovering the Biblical View . 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