The issue of marriage, or the right to marry, is a hot debate right now… but truthfully I’m not sure why.
Marriage, as clearly defined in it’s own ceremony is an institution created by God. That is why the minister says:
“Forasmuch as you ____________ and you _____________
have consented together in holy wedlock and have witnessed the
same before the Lord and this company, giving and pledging your
faith each to the other, I do now pronounce that you are husband and
wife; in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen”
The traditional wedding is filled with Bible scriptures and verses representing love and the holy union of two people. The very first union, of course, being between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden thousands of years ago when God took Adam’s rib and created Eve so that he will always have a life partner to help him. This is a symbol of God’s commitment toward the church – the man being God and the woman being a symbol of the church.
We call the act of marriage “Holy Matrimony” because God created it and blesses it. He’s defined the pattern for it in Ephesians 5:22-27:
“Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. “
And also in Mark 10:7:
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife“
It’s pretty self-explanatory but, in case you’re not getting the picture, I’ll make it plain for you. Redefining marriage goes against God’s purpose for it. God created it for a specific reason to be a specific way which is between one man and one woman. If same sex partners choose to be together, no one is telling them not to, but please don’t take away the true meaning of marriage. Don’t change what God made due to the desire for the same government rights. Create something else, fight for it another way, but don’t try and redefine marriage. Marriage belongs to God and anyone who tries to distort what God creates will reap the consequences for that.
The real Christians, the love-filled, Bible-following kind don’t hate same-sex partners and we don’t wish them ill-will. Truthfully, we don’t care what you do with your time because it’s your life and your choice… just don’t take something that we believe in and change it to your benefit. Because if you were being honest, it’s not about the wedding or the word marriage, you just want equality but that’s not fair to us. It’s not fair to take something we believe in and are taught to treat as sacred and have it be redefined by the government when it DOESN’T BEONG TO THEM EITHER. Marriage, in and of itself, has enough of its own problems without everyone trying to redefine what it is. Go to the origin and you’ll see exactly what it is.
The bottom-line is: If same-sex partners want to be together and be recognized as a union for equality or acceptance that is their choice. However, to take marriage when it is so ingrained and defined within Christian beliefs is an offense to the entire culture. We’re not saying you shouldn’t be recognized as a union, just don’t redefine the true meaning of marriage to do it. Marriage belongs to God… always has and always will.
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