Was the Reformer Martin Luther innovating or an error when he added the word alone to Romans 328

for we hold that one is justified by faith alone apart from works of the law?

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In the Wittenburg Trail feature, Dr. Donna Harrison details her journey to confessional

Lutheranism from Catholicism, Scientism, Mysticism, and Evangelicalism.

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Welcome back to issues etc. The world's view of sex is now not only off course

from the created order, it is on a collision course with something that is pretty much the exact

opposite of God's purpose for sex, for marriage, for human sexuality.

Be that as it may, Christians remain, well they have a North Star to follow, holy scripture

on the issue of sexuality. So what does scripture mean when it talks about the marriage bed

in particular in Hebrews, the marriage bed being undefiled? Welcome back to issues etc.

Joining us to talk about God's gift of the marriage bed.

Pastor David Peterson, he's pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana,

editor of God of Stints, the journal of Lutheran Liturgy, and author of a recent column for the

Lutheran Witness Online, titled Reclaiming the Marriage Bed. David, welcome back.

Thanks Todd.

They're in Hebrews 13, it reads marriages to be held in honor by all and the marriage bed

is to be undefiled. What is it talking about?

It's talking about sexual intercourse, so the place where husband and wife sleep together.

And the very next phrase is that God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

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