{"id":11045,"date":"2012-03-17T09:26:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=11045"},"modified":"2012-03-17T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T14:26:16","slug":"thoughts-on-marriage-1-corinthians-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/thoughts-on-marriage-1-corinthians-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Marriage. 1 Corinthians 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/i-need-to-be-a-better-listener-1-corinthians-1\/corinthians-post\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10997\" title=\"corinthians-post\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/corinthians-post.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/corinthians-post.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/corinthians-post-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/corinthians-post-200x115.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are reading 1 &amp; 2 Corinthians with me, today\u2019s reading is 1 Corinthians 7.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m abandoning the SOAP format today because, well, instead I\u2019d like to ask for your input.<\/p>\n<p>This passage talks about marriage. Paul suggests it is better not to be married, as then your focus on God is divided, as you are also concerned with your spouse. I get that, but in Genesis we are told that we are created man and woman and that the woman was created as a helper to the man. I take that to mean that we are created man and woman so that we will marry. But Paul talks about marriage as a concession.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have any thoughts or clarification for me? I\u2019d love to hear what you think or understand.<\/p>\n<p>Also, another verse always brings up a question for me. 1 Corinthians 7: 14 says \u201cFor the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So does that mean that the unbelieving spouse is also granted eternal life with Christ?<\/p>\n<p>What have you learned?<\/p>\n<p>And what questions do you have on today\u2019s passage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are reading 1 &amp; 2 Corinthians with me, today\u2019s reading is 1 Corinthians 7. I\u2019m abandoning the SOAP format today because, well, instead I\u2019d like to ask for your input. This passage talks about marriage. Paul suggests it is better not to be married, as then your focus on God is divided, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1-2-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11047,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045\/revisions\/11047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}