It seem there is a lot of variability in marriage and gender, in the Bible. And that if anything , we are destined for bi-sexuality or androgyny in Heaven itself. While normally, Heaven is regarding as a model for the earth as well.

To be sure, biblical gender-bending, and variability in “marriage”s, is at times, disturbing and disorienting. But it seems enough to suggest that current “Conservative” views on the subject are not really Biblical or Christian at all.

You know Richard Sibbes was quite the Marital Mysticism guy himself; it’s interesting, isn’t it, how The Spiritual Brethren are usually glossed over by The Intellectual Father types who make up American “Calvinism” today. I know my mentor, Ron Frost, can’t stand this current state of affairs in American Calvinism; but he chooses, unlike me, to get involved in any kind of debate around this stuff (anyway, I’m starting to digress).

Good post, my wife actually read it before I did; she was intrigued by this, as of course am I. For anyone interested Janice Knight’s book: Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Rereading American Puritanism helps develop the history and distinction between “The Spiritual Brethren” (the more “erotic” kind) Calvinist versus what has become the dominant and best known strain of Calvinism in America The Intellectual Fathers (in the trad of 5 point and Federal Theology).