o one disagrees that Genesis 2:24 is the biblical definition to marriage. We just seem to say it and ignore it. It’s biblical. I’m a Christian. Check that box. Okay. Move on. Where do I get my marriage license? At the end of the day, we completely ignore the one thing that was the purpose of our union - Genesis 2:24.
The idea of applying Genesis truth to marriage came about during my own marriage to Adam. We were two young and vibrant individuals determined to find love after a few failed attempts. We believed at the onset of our relationship marriage should be til death but we had not been fortunate to discover that path to blissfulness and seriously questioned “why are we even trying to do this .. again?”. Simultaneously, my Husband and I were both seeking Jesus in a new way. It seemed our old methods and practices of worshipping kept us in a cycle of chaos, in which we were praying and reading scriptures but to no avail. Over time and repeating the same things over and over again we learned we were missing a key element – works. “Even so …show more content…
The painful part of the process is finding out what works and what does not work, and furthermore, why it works and why it doesn’t work. In addition, to your raging hormones and semi-homicidal thoughts that seem to sabotage the process more than help. Using our marriage as a hypothesis, I concluded with 4 ways to apply Genesis 2:24 to marriage to obtain a til death type of marriage. And guess what? It worked! After consistently applying these 4 ways into our marriage, we have a PERFECT marriage. A Genesis 2:24 marriage is the biblical marriage which guarantees til death (the guarantee isn’t from me but from God if you follow his scriptures and commands). My intention is not to place marriage and scripture into a science project; however, after much research we could not find any specific teachings on applying Genesis 2:24 to our marriage so we did it on our
The idea of applying Genesis truth to marriage came about during my own marriage to Adam. We were two young and vibrant individuals determined to find love after a few failed attempts. We believed at the onset of our relationship marriage should be til death but we had not been fortunate to discover that path to blissfulness and seriously questioned “why are we even trying to do this .. again?”. Simultaneously, my Husband and I were both seeking Jesus in a new way. It seemed our old methods and practices of worshipping kept us in a cycle of chaos, in which we were praying and reading scriptures but to no avail. Over time and repeating the same things over and over again we learned we were missing a key element – works. “Even so …show more content…
The painful part of the process is finding out what works and what does not work, and furthermore, why it works and why it doesn’t work. In addition, to your raging hormones and semi-homicidal thoughts that seem to sabotage the process more than help. Using our marriage as a hypothesis, I concluded with 4 ways to apply Genesis 2:24 to marriage to obtain a til death type of marriage. And guess what? It worked! After consistently applying these 4 ways into our marriage, we have a PERFECT marriage. A Genesis 2:24 marriage is the biblical marriage which guarantees til death (the guarantee isn’t from me but from God if you follow his scriptures and commands). My intention is not to place marriage and scripture into a science project; however, after much research we could not find any specific teachings on applying Genesis 2:24 to our marriage so we did it on our