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question on marriage for christians.?

http://biblehub.com/ruth/1-16.htm

What made this not a marriage between ruth and naomi-fact that it wasn't premeditated and calculated and didn't involve witnesses. http://elopenewyork.com/2008/04/what-is-minimal-re...

Or does a covenant need to mention sex to be a marriage? The legal minimum words for marriage dont mention sex, maybe in origin of tradition they assume it.

There are sexless marriages, so I assume homosexuality being sinful is not the only reason ssm is a sin. relatives marrying without bad relationship still unbibical.

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Rom 1:25-32

    25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

    26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

    27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

    28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

    29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

    30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

    31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

    32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

    KJV

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  • Lesley
    Lv 6
    3 years ago

    The story of Naomi appears in the Bible in the book of Ruth. Naomi lived during the time of the judges. She was the wife of a man named Elimelech, and they lived in Bethlehem with their two sons, Mahlon and Kilion. Naomi’s life illustrates the power of God to bring something good out of bitter circumstances.

    When a famine hits Judea, Elimelech and Naomi and their two boys relocate to Moab (Ruth 1:1). There, Mahlon and Kilion marry two Moabite women, Orpah and Ruth. After about ten years, tragedy strikes. Elimelech dies, and both of Naomi’s sons also die, leaving Naomi, Ruth, and Orpah widows (Ruth 1:3–5). Naomi, hearing that the famine in Judea was over, decides to return home (Ruth 1:6). Orpah stays in Moab, but Ruth choses to move to the land of Israel with Naomi. The book of Ruth is the story of Naomi and Ruth returning to Bethlehem and how Ruth married a man named Boaz and bore a son, Obed, who became the grandfather of David and the ancestor of Jesus Christ.

    Are you asking about the marriage between Ruth and the son of Naomi, or about the marriage between Ruth and Boaz?

  • Liz
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Marriage is a legal concept, not a religious one.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    They were both women (pre-gay marriage by 3300 years). They were mother and daughter-in-law. They were two widows who had each others back. Nothing about their relationship even remotely suggests they had that kind of relationship.

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