I have many critics. Many even condemn me for not being “Christian”.
They try to make a case that “Marriage” is Sexual Intercourse + “Something Else”, but the something else is never congruent, scripturally logical and always subjective. Their best defense is to take ONE verse out of context and or focus on ONE word in a verse to make their case.
But …. the one thing they CANNOT do is tell me HOW a man becomes a husband and a woman a wife. At what precise moment does the man become a husband and the woman a wife.
This is when they leave and never return. And this happens on other Social Media Platforms as well. Not just here. They rebuke me, take a verse out of context, and then when I ask them to please explain to me how a man becomes a husband and a woman a wife — they are gone.
This Blog has numerous examples of various arguments for how non-virgin women can take a husband or remarry a husband. Just recently on Facebook a man argued with me that 1 Corinthians 7:15 allows a non-virgin woman to remarry. This is a perfect example of taking ONE verse out of context and ONE word “Literally” and then ignoring all the other verses, words and examples of marriage in the Scriptures. He wouldn’t even read my article — “Not Under Bondage” nor would he answer any of my questions nor say no more. That was it. He left and never returned. In fact he then “blocked” me on Facebook.
He refused to explain to me HOW that woman who was “abandoned” could then marry a man. It is easy to say someone is wrong or something is wrong then it is to establish your own theology as to how two people become married. Easy to be a critic; much harder to stand up and be a leader.
Question — HOW does a man become a husband and a woman a wife? At what magical moment does this happen? When precisely does God think of a man as a husband and a woman as a wife?
Why is it that hardly a man even tries to answer this question??? I believe only 4 people in the past 15+ years have tried to establish a pattern of procedural marriage. What is the process.
There is something seriously wrong here.
Please people, think. They don’t try to answer, because they can’t. Sexual Intercourse IS the Marriage of two Flesh become One. This is a Foundational doctrine. It is a Natural Law proved by Scripture.
Prove it wrong.
Marriage can NEVER be Subjective. No where do the Scriptures imply that marriage is left to man to define. If true, then fornication and adultery are Subjective also.
Who is willing to take that risk? It seems MANY.
Side Note — the Israelites tried to “Legislate” marriage. This is the beginning of what we call — Institutional Marriage i.e., Civil Laws concerning marriage. The Israelites created Traditions and Rituals. I believe the reason for this was to protect the Sanctity of Virginity first and foremost. The second reason is that the reality is a “Virgin Girl” was POWER. In our History as Europeans, men fought wars over a woman’s virginity. Men grew rich and gained prominence because of their daughter’s virginity.
But in the end, “marriage” is simple and does not require anything from anyone besides the man and the woman having sexual intercourse thus creating the One Flesh marriage.
“…. go into your brother’s wife and marry her….” — Genesis 38:8