What is a Biblical Marriage?
What is marriage? Altho I have
left Christianity and no longer believe in the Bible, I have
nonetheless years ago did a study about mariage in the Bible, of which
the partial results are included in this short article. In modern
Christianity marriage is looked on as a "sex
license". I am simply sharing with you the Bible's explanation, which
is not mine.
I
discovered what a Biblical marriage is by getting my Strongs concordance
and going through every place in the Bible that involved marriage and a
dowry and I was surprised at what I found: It is the act of sexual
intercourse that makes you married! So the question "Is it OK
for a couple to have premarital sex?" is a pointless question because
it is the act of sex that makes you married, so it is impossible to
have premarital sex. So Christians need to apologise to people that
they have wrongly accused of "living in adultery".
Genesis
29:21-30: And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are
fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. And Laban gathered together all
the men of the place, and made a feast. And it came to pass in the
evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to
him; and he went in unto her. And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah
Zilpah his maid for a handmaid. And it came to pass, that in
the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this
thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel ?
wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? And Laban said, It must not be so
done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. Fulfil
her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou
shalt serve with me yet seven other years. And Jacob did so, and
fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
Notice these phrases: . . . he took Leah his daughter, and
brought her to him; and he
went in unto her. . . . he gave him Rachel his daughter
to wife also. . . And he
went in also unto Rachel . . .
Both women were not his wives until he had intercourse with them. Now
let's move to Deuteronomy 22:28-29: If a man find a damsel that is a
virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her,
and they be found; then the man that lay with her shall give unto the
damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his
wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his
days. The giving of 50 shekels of silver is the dowry.
What made her his wife? A ceremony, and written (unenforcable)
contract, a court? It was intercourse that made them husband and wife.
Here is a problem with the Christian teaching that you need a marriage
license before having sex. A license comes through a court, even if
performed in a church. There is no Biblical basis for requiring a legal
contract issued by a court.
Furthermore, a "marriage" as recognized by courts is a fraud because is
it not two people who are being married, but two corporations forming a
subsidiary corporation. A "divorce" is the dissolving of that
subsidiary corporation. In law, whether you realize this or not, "you"
are not you, but instead, "you" (who you think is the real you) is a
corporation that was created using your name without your permission
and created without your knowledge. In short, "you" (as the court views
"you') are a corporation, not a living man. The legal term
"corporation" is derived from two Latin words: corpus (meaning a
corpse) and orat
(meaning to speak). As the court sees you, "you" are a corpse that
speaks. Courts only have legal duristiction over corporations. If
however you represent youself in court as a living man, the court has
no power or authority over you because you are outside of their
duristiction (you are not dead). You can commit murder, yet if you
represent yourself in court as a living man the
court cannot hear the case and must release you. The world's expert on
this subject is Dean Clifford who has many lectures on Youtube about
this. The downside of him is his filthy language, otherwise he is worth
listening to. Now to get back to the Biblical instances of marriage.
We find in 1 Corinthians 6:15-16: Know ye not that your bodies are the
members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make
them the members of a harlot? God forbid. What ! know ye not that he
which is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be
one flesh.
What has made them husband and wife? A ring on the fingers, a
ceremony, alegal contract? None of these. It was sex.
Now go to 1 Cor 7: 25, 28 . . . Now concerning virgins I have
no commandment of the Lord . . . if a virgin marry,
she hath not sinned . . .
Notice that he did not say "Now concerning unmarried women". If you are
a virgin the you are
unmarried, hence he did not need to state this. This is because if you
had intercourse with a man then you are married and no longer a virgin.
V.34: There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The
unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy
both in body and in spirit : but she that is married careth for the
things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Here again is the same idea: he did not have to say "between a wife and
an unmarried woman".
Which
is better: A Christian couple who legally "marry" (get a sex license),
then divorce, then each remary someone else ( get additional sex
licenses), or a couple who do not legally "marry" (have no sex license)
yet truly love each other, are faithful, and stay together for their
entire lives in a loving and caring relationship?