What exactly is marriage? Marriage is a union between a man and a woman. It is a commitment of love and affection. It is a covenant before God. Marriage is two people joined together vowing to spend their lives with one another. Marriage is not something that one should take light heartedly. Choosing to be married should take a lot of deep thought to insure that the person you love is the one you want to spend every day with for better or for worse. If all the reason why you should marry your significant other outweighs the reason you shouldn’t. Then I believe you have found the right person. Understanding the true meaning of marriage would be useful for the people who get married for the wrong reason. One example, why a better grasp of the
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The most logical and well known reasons is for; legal, financial, spiritual, and religious commitments. The decision of who they marry is ultimately up to them. Although sometimes parental choice may come into play. (In some regions of the world arranged marriages, adultery and forced marriage may be practiced as an ethnic custom. Many of these practices are banned in most developed countries of the world. These laws help insure equal rights within the boundaries of marriage. Marriage can be recognized by a state, an organization, a tribal group, a religious authority, and a local community or …show more content…
This definition of marriage is very vague and incomplete. Marriage is described in the bible as divine, not simply human institution. Which means that people are not free to renegotiate or change marriage and the family however they choose, but were entitled to reserve and respect what has been divinely established. In the bible God stated “what therefore God has joined together let no man separate (Matthew 19:6). This scripture informs us that matrimony is much more than a social contract, but is instead a divinely instituted covenant. A covenant in this situation, is a promise between two people before God. The spouses pledge to each other, through the hard times to abiding loyalty and fidelity. Divorce is not acceptable, there are very few reason in the Bible that actually allow you to divorce
The most logical and well known reasons is for; legal, financial, spiritual, and religious commitments. The decision of who they marry is ultimately up to them. Although sometimes parental choice may come into play. (In some regions of the world arranged marriages, adultery and forced marriage may be practiced as an ethnic custom. Many of these practices are banned in most developed countries of the world. These laws help insure equal rights within the boundaries of marriage. Marriage can be recognized by a state, an organization, a tribal group, a religious authority, and a local community or …show more content…
This definition of marriage is very vague and incomplete. Marriage is described in the bible as divine, not simply human institution. Which means that people are not free to renegotiate or change marriage and the family however they choose, but were entitled to reserve and respect what has been divinely established. In the bible God stated “what therefore God has joined together let no man separate (Matthew 19:6). This scripture informs us that matrimony is much more than a social contract, but is instead a divinely instituted covenant. A covenant in this situation, is a promise between two people before God. The spouses pledge to each other, through the hard times to abiding loyalty and fidelity. Divorce is not acceptable, there are very few reason in the Bible that actually allow you to divorce