Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Marriage Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 91 06:16:57 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 25 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article gt5614b@prism.gatech.edu (Butera, Robert J.) writes: + +[I'll try to give a starting point, though I suspect others will want +to contribute more. This is certainly not intended as a complete +list. Eph 5:21-33 is the most extended treatment I can think of about +marriage in the NT. You might want to point them to Song of Solomon. +Many kids are shocked to find such a thing in the Bible. (It's +helpful in countering the common impression that sex is dirty to know +that there is erotic poetry in the Bible.) Proverbs has various Depending on the age of the 'students' some of the inconsistencies such as Abramham's child by Haggar(sp), or the several handmaidens of both Leah and Rachel, wives of Jacob. For even more 'moral' discussion the story of Judah, Tamar, and the source of the family linage of the 'lion of Judah' and eventually Jesus himself. Whereas modern Christians seem to have the various pillars of moralisms which the Roman's held, the Bible has some rather startling morals. I.e. polygamy was not condemned until the time of the apostles, probably do to integration with the Roman Empire at large. -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu