Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
St. Paul used the games of his day to draw parallels to the Christian pursuit of eternal life. Peter Helland explains that the success of Vince Lombardi with the Green Bay Packers was dependent on making them excel on the fundamentals of the game, blocking and tackling. Peter uses the southern theologian, Robert Lewis Dabney as he urges Christians to return to the fundamental biblical concepts in marriage that have been lost especially since the Civil War. Dabney wrote in 1871: "the great aim of God in ordaining a permanent marriage tie between one man and one woman was "that He might seek a godly seed." (Malachi 2:15). Then Dabney declares that "the great foundation for the subordination of children [is] in the mother's example." The Old Testament prophets rarely would pluck out their beards and their hair from themselves or others. But when the men married the wrong women they did. The purpose of marriage is to produce godly children and children strongly tend to imitate their mothers. If their mother obeys God who commands her to fear her husband and obey him as unto Christ the children will walk right after her example. It is extremely crucial that men marry godly women or the purpose of marriage is subverted.
St. Paul used the games of his day to draw parallels to the Christian pursuit of eternal life. Peter Helland explains that the success of Vince Lombardi with the Green Bay Packers was dependent on making them excel on the fundamentals of the game, blocking and tackling. Peter uses the southern theologian, Robert Lewis Dabney as he urges Christians to return to the fundamental biblical concepts in marriage that have been lost especially since the Civil War. Dabney wrote in 1871: "the great aim of God in ordaining a permanent marriage tie between one man and one woman was "that He might seek a godly seed." (Malachi 2:15). Then Dabney declares that "the great foundation for the subordination of children [is] in the mother's example." The Old Testament prophets rarely would pluck out their beards and their hair from themselves or others. But when the men married the wrong women they did. The purpose of marriage is to produce godly children and children strongly tend to imitate their mothers. If their mother obeys God who commands her to fear her husband and obey him as unto Christ the children will walk right after her example. It is extremely crucial that men marry godly women or the purpose of marriage is subverted.
