13 �... Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body,
18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.� 1 Corinth6.
�Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.� 1 Corinth7.
I personally believe that, there should be far more reasons to get married than the above qoated from the Apostle Paul not that I somehow belittle his rebukes and teachings about sexual immorality and principles of marriage! I do wonder however, if one should lay a foundation of marriage on desires of the flesh, �9 ... Let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.�
If this is the case now in the New Testament, then what was the reason for marrying in the Old Testament before Paul taught about this? Yes one may say, �The only reason that two people should get together and get married is because they can do more for the Kingdom of God together than they can do apart.� In asmuch as this sounds valid and true, I haven't heard a bible passage that supports this statement Rather in contrary Paul says, �33 But he who is married cares about the things of the world-how he may please his wife.� Which in me communicates 'mis-priorities' so to speak!
What were former marriages based on before Paul taught about these principles, surely there were married couples even then hey..?
If you may be willing to answer my next question in advance continuing from this one; please feel free to do likewise:
I have learned through this dating site, that God does permit an end of marriage through divorce, provided it was due to infidelity! Other than that; this is a lifetime covenant �39 A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.�
Could it be that Jesus through the Apostle Paul came to change the former law in the Old Testament; the law that permits remarriage of the wife even if her ex-husband is still alive if their reasons for divorce are based on infidelity or abuse, since in Corinth Paul teaches that she must stay unmarried till her husband passes on?
