Marital Love as Covenant in Paul Palmer Writing
The text argues that marital love is a covenant and the sole proper context for sexual activity. It emphasizes that love and sex cannot be separated, that marriage should regulate sexuality, and that married love represents exclusive, deliberate choice beyond benevolent affection. It contrasts amor with dilectio to highlight chosen, exclusive love.
Covenant Love and the Modern Marriage Crisis
The piece argues marriage should be a covenant reflecting divine faithfulness, but modern society treats it as a commercial contract. It laments erosion of covenantal love, the diminished role of state and church guarantees, and urges marriage as a two person bond with God as witness to uphold social and religious aims.
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NC News Service
Abba Father The Unique Jesus Address To God
Father John MacCandless discusses why Jesus used Abba the intimate Aramaic term for Father and why the early Church preserved it in Greek translations. He notes Rabbis avoided the term, while Jesus used it to express personal consciousness and teach disciples to pray. This reflects how the New Testament preserves Jesus’ original address rather than translate it.
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Jesus
God
Nazareth
Father
Religious metaphor Father and Abba in Galatians and Romans
The term Father and Abba express intimate, personal parental relationship with God. For the ordinary believer it signals closeness, trust, and access to God as a loving parent rather than a distant sovereign. The Greek Abba emphasizes youthful dependence and trust, while Father connotes authority and care.
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Gethsemani
Scripture-Search Answers and a Bible Verse Clip
The list presents Bible terms matched to topics: Magdala, Women and Jesus, Joanna and Susanna, Seven, Crucifixion burial and empty tomb, Anointing the body, Peter, Resurrection, Rabbouni, Ascended to the Father. A note cites no man can serve two masters, referencing Matthew 6 24 about devotion to God over wealth.
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Magdala
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Joanna
Susanna
Peter
Resurrection
Rabbouni
Ascended
Father
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