Regardless of what goes on in this world on Planet Earth, marriage was God's idea. The Lord God Himself instituted and ordained marriage at the beginning of human history. In God's Constitution (Bible) Moses describes how the Lord God had taken a rib from the side of the man He had already created and fashioned from it a woman to be a "suitable assistant" for the man. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.
Then God brought the man and the woman together and confirmed their relationship as husband and wife, thereby ordaining the institution of marriage. As you may have noticed, He made a female for him, not another male. The Lord God created Earth and all that resides in it. Mankind did not simply dream up marriage somewhere along the line as a convenient way of handling relationships and responsibilities between men and women or dealing with childbearing and parent issues. I must state, marriage is a divine origin.
From the beginning, the Lord God established marriage as a permanent relationship; the union of two separate individuals, male and female into "one flesh". When Adam first laid eyes on Eve, he exclaimed: “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” God's design for marriage is found in the very next verse: Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
If I were to glue two pieces of wood together, they are bonded but not fused. They remain two separate pieces of wood and sufficient heat or pressure will break the bond. In the world of chemistry, different elements are linked to each other by chemical bonds that allow them to work together in a particular manner. Now if that bond is broken, those elements are released and go their separate ways.
Now it is much different with fusion. When two elements are fused into one, they become inseparable. A force of sufficient magnitude may destroy them, but it can never dis-join them. A man and a woman who have become "one flesh" under the Lord God's design for marriage cannot be separated without suffering great damage or even destruction. It would be the spiritual equivalent of having an arm or leg torn from their bodies. When God ordained that the man and the woman should become one flesh, He plainly had a permanent lifelong relationship in His mind. Jesus made it abundantly clear when speaking to the Pharisees. He pointed out that Moses had permitted it in the law: And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female. ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
If marriage was of human origin, then human beings would have the right to set it aside whenever they chose to do so. Remember, marriage is a divinely ordained institution. It was the Lord God's idea.
Genesis 2:20 Genesis 2:23 Genesis 2:24 Mark 10:5-9
~~W.R. Luchie
Then God brought the man and the woman together and confirmed their relationship as husband and wife, thereby ordaining the institution of marriage. As you may have noticed, He made a female for him, not another male. The Lord God created Earth and all that resides in it. Mankind did not simply dream up marriage somewhere along the line as a convenient way of handling relationships and responsibilities between men and women or dealing with childbearing and parent issues. I must state, marriage is a divine origin.
From the beginning, the Lord God established marriage as a permanent relationship; the union of two separate individuals, male and female into "one flesh". When Adam first laid eyes on Eve, he exclaimed: “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” God's design for marriage is found in the very next verse: Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
If I were to glue two pieces of wood together, they are bonded but not fused. They remain two separate pieces of wood and sufficient heat or pressure will break the bond. In the world of chemistry, different elements are linked to each other by chemical bonds that allow them to work together in a particular manner. Now if that bond is broken, those elements are released and go their separate ways.
Now it is much different with fusion. When two elements are fused into one, they become inseparable. A force of sufficient magnitude may destroy them, but it can never dis-join them. A man and a woman who have become "one flesh" under the Lord God's design for marriage cannot be separated without suffering great damage or even destruction. It would be the spiritual equivalent of having an arm or leg torn from their bodies. When God ordained that the man and the woman should become one flesh, He plainly had a permanent lifelong relationship in His mind. Jesus made it abundantly clear when speaking to the Pharisees. He pointed out that Moses had permitted it in the law: And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female. ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
If marriage was of human origin, then human beings would have the right to set it aside whenever they chose to do so. Remember, marriage is a divinely ordained institution. It was the Lord God's idea.
Genesis 2:20 Genesis 2:23 Genesis 2:24 Mark 10:5-9
~~W.R. Luchie
