On the fallacy of ‘Christian marriage’
‘There really is no such thing as “Christian
marriage” as the term is commonly used. “Christian marriage” is a vain,
romantic, unbiblical conception. “Christian marriage” is a fiction. There is no
more an institution of “Christian marriage” than there is a “Christian nation”
or a “Christian lawyer” or a “Christian athlete.” Even where such terms are
invoked as a matter of careless formulation and imprecise speech, they are
symptoms of a desire to separate Christians from the common life of the world,
whereas Christians are called into radical involvement in the common life of
the world. To be sure, there are Christians who are athletes and those who
practice law, and there are Christians who are citizens of this and the other
nations. But none of these or similar activities or institutions are in any
respect essentially Christian, nor can they be changed or reconstituted in
order to become Christian. They are, on the contrary, realities of the fallen
life of the world. They are inherently secular and worldly; they are subject to
the power of death; they are aspects of the present, transient, perishing
existence of the world.
It is the same with
marriage. Marriage is a fallen estate. That does not mean that it is not an
honorable estate . . .
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