Yeah, But Have You Heard About His Dad And Bathsheba? Whether, in order to disagree with Driscoll, they’re writing off Solomon himself. What I am a bit concerned about is the way Christians go about disagreeing with him on those subjects. Also, just to be clear, the title of this article is not “Why Mark Driscoll is Right and Everybody Should Go Podcast Him and Get a Tattoo with His Face on It.” I am not defending, nor will I take as serious any accusation that I am defending, everything or even anything that Driscoll has said about marriage and sex. DeMuth’s suggestions in the back half of her article were particularly helpful. Now, before anybody thinks I’m questioning DeMuth or Turner’s faith in Jesus, or their love for the Bible, or even much of the sound corrective they give, I’m not. For both then, the implied charge is that since Solomon was sort of a shady dude when it comes to women, having had thousands of wives and hundreds of concubines, we should look at anything he says about women sideways and maybe even ignore it. That “certain man” being, once again, Solomon. (It should be noted that Proverbs was written by a very “certain man,” one with 700 hundred wives and 300 concubines…
Mark begins talking about “nagging wives”. In a discussion of marriage and submission, Driscoll compared having to listen to them to Chinese water torture, presumably on the basis of Proverbs 27:15 (“A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike”) and 19:13 (“a contentious wife is a constant dripping”). We find a similar comment made by Turner in an article criticizing some (admittedly problematic) remarks by Driscoll on the subject of “nagging wives”.
To equate his encounters with the Shunnamite woman as prescriptive for married love seems shortsighted. He gave into every base desire, embracing fleeting passion to his detriment. (Matthew 12:42) Which is why I found a couple of off-hand comments about him by evangelical writers Mary DeMuth and Matthew Paul Turner surprising and bit off-putting.Ĭalling out the tired trope of evangelical pastors referring to their “ smoking hot wives” in a very helpful article over at the Her-meneutics page at Christianity Today, DeMuth took issue with pastors who look to the Song of Solomon as a handbook for relational and sexual advice, in the style of Mark Driscoll:īesides, how can we uphold Solomon as a godly husband? He had thousands of “wives.” ( See Ecc. (1 Kings 4:30) He’s got a few books of the Bible traditionally ascribed to him (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon), and even Jesus said he was a wise fellow. According to the Bible, King Solomon, the son of David, was one of, if not the, wisest men, apart from Jesus, who ever lived.
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