As with my last post, this post was also inspired by re-reading an old post of mine; the one about the misguided approach of some families and churches who discover that a boyfriend and girlfriend have been sexually active, choosing to split them up rather than encouraging repentance and marriage.
The story of David and Bathsheba from 2 Samuel 11 is well known. David sees Uriah’s wife Bathsheba from his palace rooftop while she’s bathing, lusts after her, arranges an encounter, she ends up pregnant, and after unsuccessfully trying to cover it up by attempting but failing to get her soldier husband to sleep with her after bringing him home from the war, sends Uriah into the front lines, resulting in his death, then David marries Bathsheba, and she bears him the son of their affair. 2 Samuel 12 details how David is brought to see the sinfulness of his actions, and as punishment, God kills the son.
My point in bringing this up? Despite the wrongfulness of their actions, God didn’t prevent the marriage from coming to pass, and notwithstanding exacting the price of the death of the son of their adultery, God nevertheless blessed their marriage afterwards, and Bathsheba bore him Solomon, who became king of Israel, and through whose line ultimately, Christ was descended, as regards His human ancestry.
God can bring good out of evil. He has often done so. It is absurd and insane that many ostensible Christians in our time would prefer to take an unfortunate situation, and make it far worse, rather than following the ‘shotgun wedding’ instinct of our ancestors, putting things right by having couples do right ultimately, even if not initially.
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feeriker
December 23, 2017 at 12:54 pm
It is absurd and insane that many ostensible Christians in our time would prefer to take an unfortunate situation, and make it far worse, rather than following the ‘shotgun wedding’ instinct of our ancestors, putting things right by having couples do right ultimately, even if not initially.
I’m convinced that modern western Christians DESPISE marriage and family with every bit as much venom as non-believers. Look at how apathetic and cavalier (at best) churches are toward the formation and preservation of families within themselves (when was the last time you heard pastors or lay leaders exhort young women to prepare themselves to be Godly wives and mothers? Or heard pastors bemoan the fact that they perform more funerals and memorial services every year than they do weddings?) and HOSTILE they are toward those who push for God’s version of a marriage and family.
Instead we hear young people, especially young women, urged to follow the World’s prescription for success and fulfillment, a prescription toxic to the formation and nurturing of families and contrary to God’s commands for the sexes laid out in Scripture. Lots of talk and lip service, but actions that speak louder to true intentions.
Jesus is going to do some serious and painful housecleaning within the church when He returns and this is going to be one of the subjects He addresses, whip in hand.
Will S.
December 23, 2017 at 1:03 pm
Indeed.
info
December 24, 2017 at 9:43 am
Indeed in the book of Exodus. A man who seduces a virgin maiden is unless her father absolutely refuses automatically married in a shotgun wedding.
If fornicate out of wedlock then its God solution to move that to the marriage bed.
Will S.
December 24, 2017 at 3:28 pm
Exactly.
Will S.
December 24, 2017 at 2:42 pm
@ Other would-be interlocutor (not the same one as on the other post):
I am a Christian, age 45, who has not married; I fully am aware of the risks to men today, which is why I am still single, though open to the possibility with the right woman, should I discover one who is worth taking such risks for.
Sex outside of marriage is forbidden according to God’s law, and so Christians can’t go along with that. I understand why heathens would, though, especially in light of the risks to men today.