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| Identify four Biblical purposes of marriage: |
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| Companionship, mutual help, perpetuation of man, purity of life |
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| Identify four Biblical persons who prove that having a wife does not mean that one has a right to that wife |
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| Herod, Samaritan Woman, The Corinthian brother who had his father's wife, any widow who marries while her husband is alive |
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| Identify four exceptions during which husbands and wives may abstain from fulfilling marital responsibilities |
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| Mutual agreement, short lived, for devotion and prayer, have a plan to resume sexual relations again(to avoid temptation of lack of self control) |
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| What was E.C. Fuqua's position on non-Christian? |
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| Non-Christians are not amenable to the law of Christ on Divorce and remarriage |
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| What did Lloyd Moyer say about persons divorcing for fornication and rights to marry again? What overall position did he use to justify that? |
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Moyer said both parties may remarry
He said it is impossible to live in adultery |
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| What did Homer Hailey say about Matthew 19:9? About 1 Cor 7:15? |
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Matt 19 - is a new covenant passage and does not apply to non-Christians
1 Cor 7 - provides a second cause for divorce |
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| Identify four considerations when considering if non-Christians are subject to God's marriage laws |
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1) Marriage applies to all, not just Christians
2) Some guilty of adultery prior to becoming Christians
3) Repentance requires a change
4) Jesus appealed to the first marriage |
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| What sexual relationship focuses the issue concerning whether baptism allows unlawful relationships to continue? |
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| What three things lie at the heart of Jesus' teaching on divorce and remarriage? |
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1) Jesus rejected the permissive Mosaic allowance
2) Jesus restated the original ideal purpose of God
3) Jesus stated only one exception |
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| Identify three Bible passages and the considerations in them which confirm that person can "live in adultery" |
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1) Matt 19:9 - verb is continuous action, present tense
2) Col 3:5-7 - some had walked and lived in adultery
3) Rom 7:1-3 - woman married to another while her first husband was alive is called an adulteress |
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| What is the Greek word for bound used in vs. 15? Is it the same Greek word for the marriage bond? |
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Word? Douloo
Same? No the word for the marriage bond is deo |
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| Identify three UN-necessary inferences made by those who argue one may remarry after an unbeliever departs? |
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a) that a divorce has actually taken place
b) that bondage is the marriage bond
c) that in either case, the Christian is free to marry |
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| Identify the three characteristics of the universal church we discussed |
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1) Composed of all true believers worldwide
2) No head of Christ
3) No universal organization or work on earth |
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| Identify the three characteristics of the local church we discussed |
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1) only organization unit of the church on earth
2) organized with elders and deacons
3) Mission: evangelism, edification, benevolence |
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| Identify the six characteristics essential to any church fellowship |
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1) membership
2) agreement
3) oversight
4) pooling of treasures
5) pooling of talents
6) work program |
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| What five distinctions did we discuss between the universal church and the local church? |
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1) members "of Christ"
2) Members agree on the things of Christ
3) Members accept oversight authorized by Christ
4)Members use talents authorized by Christ
5)Members do the work authorized by Christ |
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| What kind of noun is the word "church"? |
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| What singular word describes the individual unit in the church? |
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| Identify some things Christians and the collective church both do |
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A) Study the scriptures
B) Pray
C) teach the Lost
D) Benevolence |
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| Identify some things Christians do but the church does not do |
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A) Husband/wife responsibilities
B)Parent/Children responsibilities
C) Christian/Government responsibilities |
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| Who is to care for your widowed relative? |
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| What was the specific nature of the sin of the man to be taken away from the Corinthian church? |
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| What was the church's attitude toward the evil going on in the church? |
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| they were letting it continue, tolerating it |
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| What did Paul tell the church to do with the sinful man? |
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| deliver him to Satan for the destruction of the flesh |
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| What does "deliver to Satan" mean? |
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| acknowledge who he was serving |
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| What does "destruction of the flesh" mean? |
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| For what purpose (toward the man) does Paul say they should withdraw from him? What is the purpose on behalf of the church? |
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to save their soul
so that it doesn't corrupt the church |
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| How does Paul identify Christ in connection to an OT example? |
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| With what are we to keep the feast? |
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| with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth |
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| What were the Christians not to do with the person they had withdrawn from? |
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| not keep company with him & not even eat with him |
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| Is withdrawing fellowship a universal or local church matter? |
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| What four other primary passages speak of withdrawing or marking a brother in Christ? |
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Matt 18:15-17
Rom 16:17-18
2 Thess 3:6,14-15
Titus 3:10 |
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| Instead of going to law before the unrighteous, before whom should Christians go when they have a matter against one another? |
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| Whom does Paul say the saints will judge? |
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| What kind of legal matters are under discussion in 1 Cor 6? |
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| taking another to court, civil matters |
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| How shall we understand that saints judge? |
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| better to have a brother judging than an unbeliever |
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| Instead of taking a brother to law, what should the Christian do with regard to his "injury"? |
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| try to solve with the church |
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| What does Paul say they were doing in taking their brethren to court? |
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| they were wrong and defraud |
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| What ancient philosopher advocated homosexuality in his Symposium? |
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| What three things happened to the Corinthians when they quit immorality? And what does each mean? |
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a) washed means cleansed in baptism
b) sanctified means set apart to sacred or holy
c) justified means made right, stand w/o fault |
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| What philosophical group claimed that there was no law? |
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| Antinomians and Epicureans |
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| What does Paul say one does when he/she joins his body to harlot? |
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| What does Paul say our bodies are when related to God? |
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| Identify four cultural conditions having a bearing on chapter 7 |
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1) Gnostic tendencies towards asceticism
2) Pagan marriages and sexual practices
3) Licentiousness in Corinthians culture
4) The "present distress" |
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| Identify five considerations which show the Bible view of marriage |
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1) Creation: not good for man to be alone
2) Marriage is honorable
3) Those who forbid marriage have fallen away
4) Marriage a metaphor for Christ-church relationship |
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| What is the woman called who marries another while her husband lives? |
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| What does "not under bondage" mean? |
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| not bound to fulfill marital duties |
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| why does Paul say it is best for a person to remain "as he is" (unmarried)..7:26? |
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| What two types of "persecution" might have caused the "distress"? |
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| general physical and non-organized societal |
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| How may one be "loosed" from a wife? |
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| death, scriptural divorce, never having married |
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| What other things could have caused the "distress"? |
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temptations to sin
famine, war, economic, etc |
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| What does the unmarried man care for, that is not altogether true of the married because of his concern for his wife and the things of the world needed to take care of her? |
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| for the things of the Lord |
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| How long is a wife bound by law to her husband? |
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| What phrase limits the widow in terms of whom she may marry? |
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