Understanding the Bonds that Make or Break Marriages
or Why Marriages Fail
My last post, Balaam Effect Destroying Families, Nations and Future, had two major shortcomings. One, I did not explain the bonds joining Man and Woman into an interdependent, unique entity; i.e., one flesh. Two, I did not clarify the motivations/goals driving men and women in their striving toward Soul-Flesh Security. This is a biblical perspective and based on the Bible. If you reject the Bible then you will reject this perspective. However, for all the modern psychological babbling produced in the last two hundred years we see marriages both declining in occurrence and relationships increasing in violence. With Americans touting themselves as progressive, we need to ask ourselves why we incarcerate more citizens than other nations and those incarcerated are predominately from single {usually maternal}-parent backgrounds? Why are marriages failing wholesale and our children choosing to live in relationships outside of marriage with its attendant increase in domestic violence and degrading immorality if our psychological pretensions are better than the Bible? Let us look at the bonds of biblical marriage in greater detail. Continue reading “Why Marriages Fail: Understanding the Bonds”