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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
...Your women pastor neglected to insert scriptures into her article. Moreover, she neglected to consider many important passages on the subject of marriage: Eph 5:25-33 comes to mind.
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She does not at all neglect Ephesians 5. If you take the time to read her piece you will notice a brief—but not principally inaccurate—summation of Paul's instructions:
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Originally Posted by Jennifer Wright Knust
"...marriage is portrayed as a venue for testing the fitness of male church leaders, who are told to love their wives and to be kind to their slaves."
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
There is no time where the New Testament uses a masculine word for wife or a feminine word for husband. Also, most greek nouns have an artcle attached to it that is either masculine, feminine, or neutral. It is a very specific language. I have never seen a masculine article attached to "gune'" or a feminine artcle attached to the word "aner'".
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The reason for this has nothing to do with "specificity" and is the product of the fairly simple and straightforward development of language. This is the ultimate strawman: you have basically presented an argument in contrast to such a ridiculously hypothetical premise that it could not possibly even exist.
You have said some pretty inane things, but honestly, this has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever seen posted on this forum. Guess what? You will be hard pressed to find ANY human language in which there is gender confusion between constituent parts of speech.
The fact that the New Testament follows basic conventions of language is not an argument against same-sex marriage. Besides, it bears further note that
most words in ancient Greek are either masculine or feminine: "book", "day", "rock" and body parts are all feminine; "gold", "grain", "sky" and "star" are all masculine. So what??
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
The fact remains biblical marriage is between a man and a women.
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The only "fact" in this statement is that "biblical marriage" is derived through an interpretive construct applied to selections of individual and frequently unrelated biblical texts in an effort to provide some sort of definitive description for something that probably does not exist. "Marriage" as it is presented and endorsed in the Bible bears practically no resemblance to how it functions in the modern world.