Author	Thread: What is a marriage?
shepherdingking View Profile History	What is a marriage? Posted : 12 Oct, 2010 01:36 PM Someone said,"The idea of a certificate of marriage is for the most part for the purposes of the law, taxes and religion. It is not a Biblical concept at all." I agree in part with this statement. Who gave the authority to any man to sell a license for marriage. Who has the right to say who can marry or not. If you need permission and a license, that license granting agency can claim authority over anything in the marriage including your children. The bible does not define marriage or say you need a certificate of marriage. But it does say you need a certificate of divorce, Ezra 10:3 & Deut 24:1-5 when a wife is put away "Agunah" (chained wife) and not free to remarry, she must have a written certificate before she can remarry. If you cannot define a marriage biblically you should not condemn others. Marriage is a truth we hold to be self eident. We cannot define it but we know it when we see it. And it takes much more than a paper to make a marriage. And it takes more than a paper to get over the pain of being put away. What is a biblical marriage? Post Reply
View Profile History	What is a marriage? Posted : 13 Oct, 2010 12:51 PM shepherdingking said: Anyone who says sex in the confines of marriage is fornication needs to be challenged. Who has said that? No one but you. I would like to hear what your definition is of marriage based one how you see it in scriptures. Post Reply
shepherdingking View Profile History	What is a marriage? Posted : 14 Oct, 2010 10:41 AM That is when you do not recognize a legitimate divorce and remarriage, and call it fornication because they are still married in "God's eyes" making the 2nd marriage a sin or adultery. If this is not you who claim Chistians enter into adulterous marriages if they do not have biblical grounds for a divorce then some one else must of said it. If two people are married or divorced according to the law of the land why is it not "what a marriage is"? If you say people should be married according to the law of the land, why are they not ;egally divorced and remarried by the law of the land. You, or whoever it was seems to want it both ways. My contension is these so called christian teaches are making marriage much more complicated than God intended. It should not be that hard to define marriage. Post Reply
View Profile History	What is a marriage? Posted : 14 Oct, 2010 06:38 PM It's funny how we can use the words marriage or married in relations to things other than man and womanand it makes sense to us. In every case it is a joining or a union between two things. It seems therefore that any marriage is that way. The marriage is constituted by the joining and it is not a spiritual or philosophical union as reflected in the vows but it is a physical union whenever any two things are bound together. It is the binding of the flesh thaT constitutes marriage. The Bible makes it clear when it says "the two will become one flesh.' Thunder Post Reply

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