adelphos
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I am personally becoming more and more convinced that ONE of the reasons that marriages are falling apart in our country is because of a violation of a very fundamental truth. I am sure that I will meet with much opposition to this conviction because so many of us have bought into it hook, line, and sinker, but here it goes.
In Exodus 23:32-33, God warned the people of Israel not to make a covenant with the nations whose land they were going to enter:
When a man and woman decide to marry in the United States (as well as many other countries), they acquire a license to marry by the State. However, most believers do not read the marriage laws of that State that specifically pertain to their licensing approval. Whether the average believer recognizes it or not, they have made a covenant with that State which gives the State 100% authority over that marriage, their children, assets, etc... Contrary to clear Scriptural admonition against making such covenants. It should also be understood that before about 1850, couples were not required to be acquire a license to get married from the State. Is this also an eroding of our rights to marry without government intervention?
If we make a solemn agreement with people who are under the power of ungodly laws about marriage, are we not placing ourselves under that same power. A Scriptural study on marriage demonstrates clearly that a man and woman has the right to enter into a solemn holy covenant without government permission, licensing, or approving of a solemn covenant between a man and a woman.
Furthermore, to encourage more Scriptural reflection, one will note that there is no singular verse, passage, text, etc, that promotes the unbiblical idea that a man and woman are to have a wedding ceremony performed by a pastor, elder, rabbi, etc.. this is a doctrine of men.
Many of us believers proclaim that the Bible is the final authority for all faith and practice, what happened here?
Respectfully
Adelphos
In Exodus 23:32-33, God warned the people of Israel not to make a covenant with the nations whose land they were going to enter:
When a man and woman decide to marry in the United States (as well as many other countries), they acquire a license to marry by the State. However, most believers do not read the marriage laws of that State that specifically pertain to their licensing approval. Whether the average believer recognizes it or not, they have made a covenant with that State which gives the State 100% authority over that marriage, their children, assets, etc... Contrary to clear Scriptural admonition against making such covenants. It should also be understood that before about 1850, couples were not required to be acquire a license to get married from the State. Is this also an eroding of our rights to marry without government intervention?
If we make a solemn agreement with people who are under the power of ungodly laws about marriage, are we not placing ourselves under that same power. A Scriptural study on marriage demonstrates clearly that a man and woman has the right to enter into a solemn holy covenant without government permission, licensing, or approving of a solemn covenant between a man and a woman.
Furthermore, to encourage more Scriptural reflection, one will note that there is no singular verse, passage, text, etc, that promotes the unbiblical idea that a man and woman are to have a wedding ceremony performed by a pastor, elder, rabbi, etc.. this is a doctrine of men.
Many of us believers proclaim that the Bible is the final authority for all faith and practice, what happened here?
Respectfully
Adelphos
