How did God define marriage?

In Genesis 2:18-25 and Matthew 19:4-6, God and Jesus teach that from the Beginning, marriage is a covenant (an agreement) between a man and a woman who are joined together by God, not sex.

The Bible is a sociological reflection of the times and culture of the people that wrote it. We have inherited their culture somewhat and we also have some of the views. The point of marriage back then was for the purpose of kinship and expansion of society. People had other restrictions of marriage that furthered this goal. The incest taboo is an example of this. There were women that men could marry and could not for the purpose of expanding society. If you think about it most countries were formed though marriage of different leaders to other leader's families and then former unions among their new united territories. The formation of Spain is an example of how marriage served to expand society. The fact that Jews now suffer from some facial tics is a result of too much intermarriage. If you look at any population that had a limited number of parters to get married and procreate you will notice certain characteristics about their population that no other populations have. To say that God envisioned marriage is to already presuppose that there is a God and that this God behaves in certain ways. It is not God that really does anything, we do. If you think of everything you know I guarantee that someone taught you that and some one taught them and so forth and so on. We defined marriage and we used god to add authority to that decision. Now we use laws and science to add authority.

"The two became one flesh" I have learned by study to mean they bore a seed...they had children. Marriage was not even defined because it didn't exist. I think the marriage ceremony became necessary when people were taking otehr people's women.

It sounds odd I know but it made sense to me when I typed it lol.

When men went off to work or war even though they had chosen their partner (woman) they didn't have any way to make that claim other than for the woman to say I am the woman of John Does, he is the father of my children.

I think that the marriage ceremony was so that people were witnesses, the whole town knew and that showed any man that this woman belonged to another.

Also when men went off to war if they died they knew who to notify with a certificate of marriage...otherwise what would they do knock on every door and ask every woman if this was the father of their children?

The foundational teaching on marriage and sexual issues is found in Genesis chapters 1 and 2.

When Jesus was questioned about marriage, He referred to these 2 chapters (Matthew 19:1-12; Mark 10:1-12). Genesis teaches us that “male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27). We were created to a plan, male and female complementing each other.

That is, God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, nor Madam and Eve.

Genesis also teaches that God instituted and designed marriage between a man and a woman (Genesis 2:18-25).

Read Genesis 2:18 -2:25 especially 2:24 " Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." In Hebrew, the words "joined to" means welded to one another - not to be separated. The people of this world (not all, but too many) have been ' blinded ' by Lucifer and therefore, until they open their eyes and hearts to the Truth of God and His Son, there will continue to be wickedness...which will be coming to an end very soon :}

EXCELLENT question

the Bible does not specify what type of ceremony was required for there to be a god-sanctioned marriage. I think the Bible even says that a man becomes one flesh with a woman the first time he has sex with her, even if she is a prostitute. Solomon had 100s of wives and that was ok. According to Paul, one wife was all you could have. But marriage was always understood Biblically to be between a man and woman/women

marriage is a divine union between man and woman or as in many a monks or nuns case an eternal togetherness of love ,worship and peace among other things with God.

you have to aspire to some thing and sadly if you can't even keep you eyes focused on the one that you loved that is also adultery.

its true that the first commandment to Adam and eve after the fall was to multiply but i think now as the planet is kinda getting crowded its God hopes that we find the moral courage to stick to it whilst those around us fall into hell.

In Gods eyes marriage is not sex, it is a commitment between one man and one woman, and yes multiple partners is adultery.

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I try to understand it, I am single and I cannot make sense of it in view of the world around me. Marriage didn't have to be that bad, I told myself. But I could wish God will make clear about "divorce" also, in the same manner. Both of which.. I could hardly bear.