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Why do Christians still believe they invented marriage?

Religion has not been around that long but marriage has. We as humans have only been speaking for a few thousand yeas long before religion. There was even same sex marriages before religion got involved

http://www.islandmix.com/backchat/f9/origin-marria...

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_institution_of_...

http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/ATLAS_EN/html/hi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_same-sex_u...

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Update:

Delusion Crusher 10000 The world has been around billions of years

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Christians believe all sorts of silly things.

  • Nous
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Marriage is and always has been a matter of civil law! Whilst churches are allowed to carry out the service it must be in complete compliance with that law and any deviation or omission would make the marriage null and void and probably involve criminal offenses!

  • 8 years ago

    Same sex marriages before religion? proof? Marriage has been connected to the church in the west for generations its linked to a understanding of scripture that was believed to be inspired by God that its a union of one man and one woman with the possibility of starting a family.Militant atheists and others are trying to rewrite history in order to oppress the role of the church and the judeo christian faith in Britain as well as America in order to do this there pushing lies.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    The question is, has marriage ever been a symbol of love between the same sex, or has it always been a symbol between a man and a women for reasons of protecting and encouraging the family arrangement.

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  • 8 years ago

    The union of a man and a woman as husband and wife according to the standard set out by God. Marriage is a divine institution, authorized and established by Jehovah in Eden. Marriage brings into being the family unit, the family circle. Its basic purpose was the reproducing of the members of the human family, to bring into existence more creatures of the human kind. Jehovah the Creator made male and female and ordained marriage as the proper arrangement for the multiplication of the human race. (Ge 1:27, 28) The first human wedding was performed by Jehovah, as described at Genesis 2:22-24.

    Marriage was designed to form a permanent bond of union between man and woman, that they might be mutually helpful to each other. Living together in love and confidence, they could enjoy great happiness. Jehovah created woman as a mate for man by using the man’s rib as a base, thereby making woman man’s closest fleshly relative on earth, his own flesh. (Ge 2:21) As Jesus pointed out, it was not Adam but God who said, “That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh.” The wording of this text makes it evident that monogamy was the original standard for marriage in the eyes of Jehovah God.—Mt 19:4-6; Ge 2:24.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    All Christians need is a single word or just group of letters from the Bible in common with anything else and they'll claim Christianity created it.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Christians that believe they invented marriage have been misinformed, and need to do more Bible study. The Bible is probably the most mis understood book ever.

  • 8 years ago

    You are mistaken. God invented marriage at the beginning of time which is under 6,000 years ago.

    Christians want to preserve marriage and the nuclear family because it works. Debauchery, liberalism, secular humanism have all contributed to the state the world is in right now, which is quite repulsive, no matter how you look at it. Of course there is the exception of the gay agenda, which seems only to be interested in its interests, oblivious to the consequences.

  • 8 years ago

    Marriage came from God.

    Adam and Eve were the first in the world before religion.

    The One who created Christianity created the world.

    Read Genesis.

  • 8 years ago

    Hello. Religion started with Adam and Eve. Christians did not invent marriage

    The Bible says God did.

  • 8 years ago

    Marriage began with the chosen of God, and nowhere else.

    It is still true no matter how much you deny it. You are simply living a falsehood.

    Actually, it began as the union between God and the Church, Spiritually, and then between male and female as an example of the Spiritual.

    Still true.

    ...of course you do know that you are denying the truth, and limiting your intelligence by doing so, eh.

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