<p>The Bible shows us that a key role for a man was to be a husband. Here he could find his place in the family and society, have an outlet for his energies and creativity, and bear the responsibility and authority that God had uniquely suited him for. It is a noble and worthy thing to be a Christian husband. This book is intended to explore this role, which God created when he first brought Eve to Adam. From Adam's Edenic experience, to God's first lessons to him, their outworking in the Old Testament, and then more fully in the teaching of the New Testament, it deals with what it is to be the husband God intended - for Eve's blessing, and therefore for the benefit of all married women. '.The author describes the ways that a Christ-like husband should take responsibility for the well-being of his wife and family. His arguments are faithful to Scripture and relevant to the modern world. In an age of gender confusion in both society and the church, this is a much needed book.' - Sharon James - Author of 'In trouble and in Joy' Colin Hamer has been an elder at Grace Baptist Church, Astley, near Manchester, England, for twenty years. He is the Chairman of Warrington Action for the Homeless. He received his B.A. (Hons.) degree at Liverpool University in 1972. He is married to Lois and they have two children, Rachel and Adam.</p>

Being a Christian Husband: A Biblical Perspective

Religion & Spirituality

Hamer, Colin

Christian Books & Bibles

Evangelical Pr

<p>Can anything be more important in this life than knowing God's will--and doing it? Nonetheless, large numbers of Christians are confused about this very thing. Why is this? You believe your Bible. You accept that it is the final authority on all matters pertaining to your life of faith. God's voice is certainly and surely there on every page. But, is God's voice also heard elsewhere?You fail to get into university despite several attempts; is God telling yousomething? You are invited to a meeting and the preacher speaks movingly about being a missionary, something that has been on your mind; is God speaking to you? Is guidance to be found in miraculous spiritual gifts? Can we find direction for our life decisions in the signs and wonders of the apostolic age--a tongue or prophecy just for us?This book gives Scriptural answers to all these questions.</p>

Finding God's Will

Wipf & Stock Publishers

Can anything be more important in this life than knowing God's will--and doing it? Nonetheless, large numbers of Christians are confused about this very thing. Why is this? You believe your Bible. You accept that it is the final authority on all matters pertaining to your life of faith. God's voice is certainly and surely there on every page. But, is God's voice also heard elsewhere?You fail to get into university despite several attempts; is God telling yousomething? You are invited to a meeting and the preacher speaks movingly about being a missionary, something that has been on your mind; is God speaking to you? Is guidance to be found in miraculous spiritual gifts? Can we find direction for our life decisions in the signs and wonders of the apostolic age--a tongue or prophecy just for us?This book gives Scriptural answers to all these questions.

Finding God's Will: Reaffirming the Sufficiency of Scripture

Wipf and Stock

Marital Imagery in the Bible: An Exploration of Genesis 2:24 and its Significance for the Understanding of New Testament Divorce and Remarriage Teaching

It can only be imagined that when the New Testament writers made their (albeit brief) comments on divorce and remarriage that they assumed they would be understood. So what has gone wrong?  In the years after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, when Graeco-Roman culture was at its height, the Jewish perspective of marriage and divorce, and thus the context of those brief New Testament comments was lost. The Christian church of that era was influenced by the neoplatonic ideas of the day, and an idealised concept of marriage developed from on Adam and Eve’s marriage recorded in Genesis 2:23—it was love at first sight, a marriage made in heaven. These concepts frame an understanding of marriage in much of Western culture even today.  However, that was never the understanding of ancient Israel. Instead they looked to Genesis 2:24: ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’—so a naturally born man chooses a wife for himself, and their union was based on a ‘covenant’—in other words an agreement. The Old Testament makes it clear what the basis of that agreement was. Furthermore, it is clear, if that agreement was broken, there could be a divorce and a remarriage. All the Bible’s marital imagery (where the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures imagine that God is married to his people) is based on that understanding of human marriage.  But so strong is our concept of marriage, that when Genesis 2:24 is referred to in the New Testament, it is thought that the reference is to Adam and Eve’s marriage. It is a paradigmatic marriage that for many excludes (or greatly restricts) the possibility of divorce and remarriage.  This study looks to challenge that paradigm—and to suggest that the New Testament writers would not have employed an imagery which had at its centre divorce and remarriage, only to deny the possibility of such in their own human marriage teaching.   Colin Hamer's thesis represents the only recent work on metaphor theory in biblical scholarship. It challenges centuries of academic scholarship and ecclesiastical assumptions about divorce. Hamer's detailed and well researched analysis challenges the consensus view that the marriage of Adam and Eve in Gen 2:24 represents an ontological unity, suggesting important implications for contemporary Christian teaching on marriage and divorce.

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Relationships

Apostolos Publishing Ltd

It can only be imagined that when the New Testament writers made their (albeit brief) comments on divorce and remarriage that they assumed they would be understood. So what has gone wrong? In the years after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, when Graeco-Roman culture was at its height, the Jewish perspective of marriage and divorce, and thus the context of those brief New Testament comments was lost. The Christian church of that era was influenced by the neoplatonic ideas of the day, and an idealised concept of marriage developed from on Adam and Eve’s marriage recorded in Genesis 2:23—it was love at first sight, a marriage made in heaven. These concepts frame an understanding of marriage in much of Western culture even today. However, that was never the understanding of ancient Israel. Instead they looked to Genesis 2:24: ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’—so a naturally born man chooses a wife for himself, and their union was based on a ‘covenant’—in other words an agreement. The Old Testament makes it clear what the basis of that agreement was. Furthermore, it is clear, if that agreement was broken, there could be a divorce and a remarriage. All the Bible’s marital imagery (where the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures imagine that God is married to his people) is based on that understanding of human marriage. But so strong is our concept of marriage, that when Genesis 2:24 is referred to in the New Testament, it is thought that the reference is to Adam and Eve’s marriage. It is a paradigmatic marriage that for many excludes (or greatly restricts) the possibility of divorce and remarriage. This study looks to challenge that paradigm—and to suggest that the New Testament writers would not have employed an imagery which had at its centre divorce and remarriage, only to deny the possibility of such in their own human marriage teaching. Colin Hamer's thesis represents the only recent work on metaphor theory in biblical scholarship. It challenges centuries of academic scholarship and ecclesiastical assumptions about divorce. Hamer's detailed and well researched analysis challenges the consensus view that the marriage of Adam and Eve in Gen 2:24 represents an ontological unity, suggesting important implications for contemporary Christian teaching on marriage and divorce.

God's Divorce: Understanding New Testament Divorce and Remarriage Teaching

Faithbuilders Publishing

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Being a Christian Husband: A Biblical Perspective

Finding God's Will

Finding God's Will: Reaffirming the Sufficiency of Scripture

Marital Imagery in the Bible: An Exploration of Genesis 2:24 and its Significance for the Understanding of New Testament Divorce and Remarriage Teaching

Marital Imagery in the Bible: An Exploration of Genesis 2:24 and its Significance for the Understanding of New Testament Divorce and Remarriage Teaching

God's Divorce: Understanding New Testament Divorce and Remarriage Teaching