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what does God and jesus think about wedding/marriage

holy999 said:
can you say me it
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Genesis 2:24 NKJV
[24] Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Revelation 19:7 NKJV
[7] Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready."

Revelation 19:9a NKJV
[9] Then he said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!'"

Looks like He has a favorable view of marriage.
 
holy999 said:
what about when it says there is no marriage in heaven be like the angels
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Be careful on your wording. It says "they neither marry nor are given in marriage."
That describes NEW marriages. It says nothing one way or the other about existing marriages.

Matthew 22:30
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Mark 12:25
For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
 
Who Me said:
The whole Bible teaches that one man should marry one women for life and that all sexual relationships out side of that marriage are wrong.
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No. There is nowhere in the bible that precludes marrying more than one woman. The only exception on that is for NT congregational leaders - elders and deacons.

In fact, a multiple marriage can be COMMANDED in the Law of Moses for a certain rare case.

Deut 25:5
“When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

"Live together" is not an escape clause since the land passed from father to the sons. Each son's family would inherit part of the family estate - they would live together. This command does not consider whether the surviving brother is already married or not.

If he is, he is commanded to take another wife.
 
D-D-W said:
No. There is nowhere in the bible that precludes marrying more than one woman.
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Clearly you have never read in genesis where it says gen2: 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

A man, that is one man marrying one woman. That is the biblical principal.
That God permitted multiple wives was for a particular purpose, that of maintaining a family line.
it was not as an expression of wealth.
 
Who Me said:
Clearly you have never read in genesis where it says gen2: 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

A man, that is one man marrying one woman. That is the biblical principal.
That God permitted multiple wives was for a particular purpose, that of maintaining a family line.
it was not as an expression of wealth.
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Of course I read it. But apparently not with the same eyes as you. I am more like Luther than Zwingly on these things. If there is not a specific prohibition, then there is no specific prohibition. While I agree one-man one-woman is the proper guidance, there is nothing in Genesis to say it is a MUST OBEY law.

And it is apparent you have not properly read and understood the idea of levirite marriage. (Deut 25)
 
D-D-W said:
Of course I read it. But apparently not with the same eyes as you. I am more like Luther than Zwingly on these things. If there is not a specific prohibition, then there is no specific prohibition. While I agree one-man one-woman is the proper guidance, there is nothing in Genesis to say it is a MUST OBEY law.

And it is apparent you have not properly read and understood the idea of levirite marriage. (Deut 25)
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There is no law in the bible against scams or cons yet most people understand that they are a version of theft.
The apostles understood that it was one man to one women in all there comments about marriage.

Contrast the examples of multiply wifes and concubines in the bible with the unhappy family life and most people would agree one and one is the best pattrn to follow.
 
Who Me said:
There is no law in the bible against scams or cons yet most people understand that they are a version of theft.
The apostles understood that it was one man to one women in all there comments about marriage.

Contrast the examples of multiply wifes and concubines in the bible with the unhappy family life and most people would agree one and one is the best pattrn to follow.
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I can agree with "best pattern to follow." BUT that does not mean it is the ONLY pattern to follow.

You still have not given your assessment of the idea of levirite marriage (taking a childless widowed sister-in-law as wife) being commanded, even if the brother is already married.
 
Who Me said:
read post no 8.
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I did. You are talking there about God allowing polygny for various reasons, not the command to take another wife. That is what i was asking you to address.

There is a big difference between God allowing something and Him commanding it.
 
D-D-W said:
Be careful on your wording. It says "they neither marry nor are given in marriage."
That describes NEW marriages. It says nothing one way or the other about existing marriages.

Matthew 22:30
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Mark 12:25
For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
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I believe it means old marriages too.
IOW...in heaven there's no such thing as marriage.
 
D-D-W said:
I can agree with "best pattern to follow." BUT that does not mean it is the ONLY pattern to follow.

You still have not given your assessment of the idea of levirite marriage (taking a childless widowed sister-in-law as wife) being commanded, even if the brother is already married.
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I agree with Who Me regarding the idea that even if the bible does not explicitly forbid something...we can still know it is wrong.

Regarding taking a widow as wife...in O.T. times a woman had to be married, or taken care of in some other manner, or she would go hungry.
Families took care of each other...this was a way of doing this.
 
wondering said:
I agree with Who Me regarding the idea that even if the bible does not explicitly forbid something...we can still know it is wrong.
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Based on what?
wondering said:
Regarding taking a widow as wife...in O.T. times a woman had to be married, or taken care of in some other manner, or she would go hungry.
Families took care of each other...this was a way of doing this.
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And it was not that different as recently as 200 years ago, 1800 years after the time of Messiah. What changed? Levirite marriage was never accepted by the church.
 
D-D-W said:
I did. You are talking there about God allowing polygny for various reasons, not the command to take another wife. That is what i was asking you to address.

There is a big difference between God allowing something and Him commanding it.
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I was referring to the practice of a childless widow being married to the nearest male relative to prolong that family line.
That is the only occassion that multiple wifes is approved of.
 
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