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It's okay to get married if that's what you wish to do: 36However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry,d let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married. 1 Corinthians 7:36 It's your...

They were disappointed that the opportunity was not available to them to divorce their wives. The implication being, of course, that they are required to endure whatever difficulty it is that comes up in marriage, no matter how difficult the challenge, and not take the convenient escape of...

Or, if you do want to marry, marry someone your own age and remove the potential for additional problems related to a large age gap. Jesus did not teach the value of singleness. The disciples are the ones who came to the conclusion that, if you can't divorce, it's better to not marry, not...

That's not what the disciples were saying. What they were saying is, if you have to stay with the one you're married to and can not divorce them, then it's better to not marry.

Jesus is not teaching us to avoid marriage if at all possible and live like a eunuch. The word that not everyone can accept (vs.11) is what he just said about not divorcing in vs. 9. 7“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?c”...

I think junk like this should be left on the garbage pile.

What verse are you referring to in the Bible?

And I suggest a large disparity in age is an additional complication one should avoid in marriage. Which is interesting because the divorce rate is higher for people who have remarried, so I'm told. If that's true, I think it's true because for the person who's already been down this road, for...

28While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman. Ecclesiastes 7:28

There is a vast difference between the gift of celibacy, wherein one does not burn with sexual desire, and the fruit of the Spirit in which one overcomes and puts to death burning sexual desire, when it arises. That's how you know if you have the gift of celibacy. Gifted celibates are...

It's okay to have a fantasy that your wife live according to the fruit of the Spirit. Just as she can fantasize that, perhaps, her husband would too. If you find a good wife, you find a good wife. If you don't, you don't. That's just life. It is entirely possible to have a godly relationship...

Good according to the fruit of the Spirit. A marriage only works if both spouses are committed to living according to the fruit of the Spirit. A large disparity in age is just going to make that harder for a couple...if that couple is even wanting to live according to the Spirit. I'm not one to...

Remember, the law, which Hagar represents, was our guardian to lead us to Christ (Galatians 3:24).

That's right. Everyone is free to take it or leave it. Paul was not commanding believers not to marry. That would contradict his own criticism of those who "forbid people to marry" (1 Timothy 4:3). But I'm with Paul. If you can handle it, don't marry. But you haven't sinned if you do (1...

...ordained by God. Don't forget that.

I was careful to say the institution of marriage itself is good. A wife is good thing if she is a good wife. If she is bad that doesn't make marriage bad, it makes your marriage bad. Remember, the same person who said "a man who finds a wife finds a good thing" also spoke about the "constant...

While I'm not particularly fond of marriage anymore ("you made us late...no, you made us late":rolleyes), the institution of marriage itself is good: 22He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD. Proverbs 18:22 It takes two good people to make a good marriage and...

Abraham did not know at that time that the promise was to come through Sarah. He was just zealously trying to fulfill the promise of God in the expected and natural way that a promise like that would be fulfilled. We are to think spiritually, not naturally, concerning his uneducated effort to do...

19...money is the answer for everything. Ecclesiastes 10:19 Personally, I don't see a seven year age difference to be significant enough to cause problems. Unless there is something specific in the relationship that could become a problem under those circumstances.

Generally speaking, that would be best. Marriage is hard enough even for 'compatible' people. It is better to have fewer obstacles to overcome and deal with in marriage. That should go without saying. Just as religious and political differences can impede a marriage, so will the cultural and...