This is Pete Ruins Everything, where assumptions come to die and nobody leaves happy.

I'm Pete Ends.

Easy question to start us off today.

What is biblical marriage?

Glad to see we're starting off with some light banter today.

Yeah, well, you know, people say it all the time. The Bible clearly defines marriage,

but I'm always like, are we talking about arranged marriages, polygamy,

Leferite marriage, property transfers? Because the Bible's got option.

Yeah, exactly. Well, that's why we're excited about our upcoming class with Jennifer

Bird on, you guessed it, biblical marriage. Yeah, Jennifer is a New Testament scholar and the author

of a fantastic book on this topic, and she basically says, let's slow down. Let's look at the actual

passages people use, and let's ask whether they're doing what we think they're doing. Yeah, and in the

class,

Jennifer's going to cover the four key passages that are most used to define biblical marriage,

the Mount Rushmore of biblical marriage, if you will, and why they don't say what people sometimes

think they do. Then she'll zoom out and ask, what does marriage actually look like across the Bible,

not our idealized

version of it, but the real thing, helping us understand the differences between marriage and the

Bible and modern marriage. Then we're going to look at some overlooked passages from the prophets

and Jesus that dramatically shift how we approach the Bible for guidance about marriage

and helpful ways to reframe the question entirely.

So if you've ever felt like the phrase biblical marriage is doing a lot of heavy lifting,

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