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...From Purity Culture: Reclaiming the Bible From Purity Culture w/ Marty Solomon

Reclaiming My Theology

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The Conversation About Divorce

Jesus is having a conversation very similar to what you just referenced. The Pharisees approach him and they say when can we send our wives away? In other words they're just they're not equals. They're just things we can get rid of like a possession like we can. And Jesus is like you can't do that you can't, then they're like well then why did Moses even give us a divorce certificate.? He goes back and quotes Genesis because the woman is a shared partner in humanity so you don’t getting to make this he says. Jan: It makes me think about the radically problematic ways that we interpret Pauline texts.

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