Empower your Day in Just Seconds
Grantley Morris
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The Old Testament prescribes sacred rites for the birth of a child, for determining marital unfaithfulness, even regulations for cleansing after sexual relations, but nothing for a marriage ceremony. In the words of the Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia . . . marriage was a purely civil contract, not formalized by any religious ceremony. Likewise, whilst there is nothing even slightly wrong about a church wedding, the New Testament likewise prescribes no religious marriage ceremony. It is sex, not the ceremony, that makes the union binding. A marriage license is a piece of paper that gift-wraps the sacred treasure of sexual union. How dare any of us imagine we are honoring God by valuing the paper if we have been trashing the priceless gift! It is the height of hypocrisy to make a show of reverencing a man-made ceremony if we have no remorse about having trampled underfoot that which comes from God himself sexual union. Im not for a moment suggesting we should not respect the piece of paper, but for us to take care to avoid foolishly rushing into marriage is a sham if we dont treat sexual union with equal care. Taken from Sex Outside of Marriage Love others! May be freely copied. Just include this notice: © Grantley Morris, www.net-burst.com
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