The Chapel

After my wonderful, Lebanese-​Armenian, 20 year old wife accidentally became pregnant on our honeymoon in Israel, we went to Pastor John Hilton (The Chapel) for counsel about giving our unborn baby up for adoption. I was six years older than my wife, with far more relationship and life experience, along with a college degree and most of a Master’s degree (not to mention on-​fire for Jesus at the time), but Hilton said he thought it would create worse problems because of her attitude if we gave our baby up for adoption. Apparently contrary to biblical commands that the wife should submit to her husband (at least on critical, life-​changing issues) in passages like Ephesians 5:23−24, Hilton sided with her and said God did, too. He seemed to require some sort of visionary rapture to decide to comply with my ironclad logic and exceptionally, common sense.
Now, after lots of immaturity-​related problems and other continual and more recent marital issues, Mom and Dad are separated and getting divorced.
I love my daughter more than anything in the world. She’s the most amazing person I’ve ever met and I wouldn’t give her up for anything since the day she was born, but your advice stunk and it was wrong according to the Bible.