God’s Way Still Best

                                                                                                                                                                      Vol. X, No. 8, Sep/Oct 1997

           For years secular philosophy has promoted premarital cohabitation as a means of improving marriage because it supposedly provided an opportunity to work out differences and determine compatibility before an enduring commitment was made. Now comes a 1991 study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family which found that 40% of cohabiting couples separate before marriage and that those who eventually marry have a 50% higher divorce rate than couples who do not live together before marriage. Just as devalued money cannot provide as many things, devaluing God’s moral law cannot produce as much happiness, godliness, satisfaction, or joy in either parents or their children. [The Washington Times, 2 October 1997, p A2]