BIBLICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE STUDIES IN BIBLICAL ETHICS

VOLUME 3

Family

WITH CONTEMPORARY ISSUES ON MARRIAGE AND PARENTING

Ekkehardt Mueller

Elias Brasil de Souza

EDITORS

Biblical Research Institute

Review and Herald Publishing Association

Silver Spring, MD 20904

2023

Copyright © 2023 by the Biblical Research Institute

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Texts credited to ASV are from The Holy Bible, edited by the American Revision Committee, Standard Edition, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1901.

Standard Scripture quotations credited to ESV are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Family: With Contemporary Issues on Marriage and Parenting / [edited by] Ekkehardt Mueller and Elias Brasil de Souza

Families—Religious aspects—Christianity

Families—Religious aspects—Seventh-day Adventists

Marriage—Religious aspects—Seventh-day Adventists

Parenting—Religious aspects—Seventh-day Adventists

BS680.F3.B52 2023

ISBN 978-0-925675-52-1

FAMILY

WITH CONTEMPORARY ISSUES ON MARRIAGE AND PARENTING

Editors

Ekkehardt Mueller and Elias Brasil de Souza

Consulting Editors

Gerhard Pfandl, Daniel Bediako, and Kwabena Donkor

Managing Editor

Marly Timm

Biblical Research Institute Ethics Committee (BRIEC)

Members and Guests 2015–2021

Stephen Bauer

Torben Bergland

Elias Brasil de Souza

Kwabena Donkor

Ann Gibson

Frank M. Hasel

Ante Jeroncic

Gregory A. King

Larry Lichtenwalter

Ekkehardt Mueller

Elaine Oliver...