DIVINE MYSTERY of HUSBAND AND WIFE
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DIVINE MYSTERY of HUSBAND AND WIFE
The Christian orientation of the husband toward his wife and the wife
towards her husband is a primary divine mystery.
Particular attention and appropriate affection to one another are of
such importance that lack of discernment of husband and wife as male and
female joint heirs of God’s grace (the grace of life) results in unanswered
prayers and hindered relationship with God.(I.Peter 3.7).
Here is Karl Barth with more detail on the importance of this relationship:
” The commanded orientation of the sexes on one another, which consitutes
the essence of of each, can be summed up under three heads. They are to
consider one another, to hear the question which … Continue Reading