Our common experiences as Christians include an awareness of the wonder of God’s goodness in creation, as well as an appreciation of the pervasive effect of the fall.1 Bearing this in mind, I want to steer a path between an idealism—which paints an unrealistic and unattainable view of marriage (the fairy tale marriage); and a fatalism—which assumes that bad marriages cannot be restored and good marriages cannot be made (many people’s experience of marriage). Biblical marriage, on the other hand,
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