"Jesus taught his followers: 'Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.' When men and women unite in the bond of matrimony as 'one flesh' and raise their children together, humans thrive. Why? Because God designed us for a deep, flourishing, dependent commitment. This commitment changes and matures us, teaching us to be honorable and selfless. When spouses raise their shared biological children in this kind of relationship, everyone flourishes. Adults thrive, children are protected and nurtured, and societies succeed. Virtually every benefit confirmed by modern research was first posited by Jesus and affirmed by the ancient biblical authors."1
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Courage and Godspeed,
Chad
Footnote:
1. J. Warner Wallace, The Truth in True Crime, p. 49-50.
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