Family of God: Re: [Church_of_Christ] Re: Questions on Marriage

Shawn said: Yet, YHWH also defined marriage as one man and several wives.

Beth: Are you sure God "defined" marriage as one man and several wives or did He just allow it because of the hardness of their hearts?

No matter what he "allowed" to transpire in the old Testament between man and woman...all that changed with the nailing of the Law to the cross.

Matthew 9:4-8 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?" He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

We are not living under the law of Moses now. God is not dealing with us on a day to day basis as He was with the Israelites, where he allowed them to change His laws....for what reason I don't know. But it seems pretty cut and dried now to me. He has spoken and He has sanctioned marriage as one man and one woman and has condemned the lustful use of the body by men with men and women with women. I don't need to know anything else.

Beth

Shawn,
> The questions submitted must be addressed. Hiding and stating that "Gay Marriage" or "Civil Unions" don't exist because they are not defined will
> not address the issue in U.S. society.

SInce this is a Christian discussion board and not a social issues message board, the topic seems inappropriate.

Homosexuality is condemned by God.

Going any further seems moot.

If you want to discuss Gay marriage on here, that's your call. I do not see the relevance of the topic to Christian discussions.

> Like it or not, the U.S. is not a theocracy. It is a representative
> Republic.

And the relevance of this is?

> Thus, my original questions still stand.
>

Your question always DID stand, it's just not a relevant question for Christians to discuss.

> Shawn writes: Yet, YHWH also defined marriage as one man and several wives.

Jesus said that God did not define marriage that way.

> What is the objection to "Civil Unions" that offer the same legal
> protections?

You do not understand the legal implications of this issue for Christianity?

I'm speechless.

Ray

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