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Originally Posted by JM
Well lets put that in the right context shall we...
As I understand where you are coming from you are relaying what has been taught to you concerning what others THINK God wants.
YOU believe god joins people in marriage
Others dont
and I would even submit GOD may differ but of course.. noone will ever be able to prove that other than spouting scripture which that in itself verifies nothing except what a person chooses to agree with.
BIG DIFFERENCE
Now personally myself, I believe God is not seperate from people, so in one sense when a man and women or a women and a women ( im sure that will ruffle some feathers ) join together
God is right there. As they are right there and Where any_thing is.. God is too as God is every_thing
The difference here though is, you have been taught that God has Laid down a law, that cannot be broken and if it is, it is a rejection of God himself / (herself )
It portrays God as a Angry, Jealous, Punishing.... God with Human Hangups and if God doesn't get his ( or her ) way... God will go sit in a corner and pout about it and then later Punish man through rejecting, seperating and ultimately punishing
This is a very primitive view of God that dates back to views that people even had of Gods like Zeus and so forth...
You have a view of marriage is one that is a limited view of God and fearful one... defined by Man, not by God
God is life.
There is no value judgement made by life or by this essense with regard to one experience as to opposed to the other. So one could say loosely that God has no preference in the matter of how things turn out.
Larger than the preference that we have, because we are in fact that which is God experiencing
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In order for a couple to form a unit of life they must have physiological union; because, life is physiological. The only function, in which two human beings can have physiological unions, is in reproductive (procreative) physiology. Furthermore, procreative union is only possible between a man and women; and both are essential to complete the cycle of reproductive physiology. Therefore, marriage is only possible between a man and a woman. Furthermore, since the physiological purpose of conjugal union is procreation, in order to make it an act of love the couple must leave their union totally open to procreation.
Conjugal activity involving union of sexual and gastrointestinal organs is unnatural, because, it involves union of organs that are physiologically incompatible and non-complementary. Same sex activity, therefore, is not physiological and does not form a unit of life. It is, therefore, a sexual perversion. It is also a grave disorder, because it uses procreative elements of mind, body and spirit for a perverse purpose. This act is similar to, trying to use a lock to open a lock (instead of using a key). To get involved in such activity, therefore, is harmful to the mind and the spirit. People with tendencies to perform such acts, therefore, need treatment of the mind and spirit.
In marriage, spouses leave their parents and unite with each other (Mark 10:7) to become one flesh (Gen.2: 24). Because, it is a covenant of love, and God is love (1 John4:8), it is God who seals the marriage covenant; and no one can separate what God has joined together (Matt 19:6). In divorce, therefore, this covenant is not broken; it is rejected. Therefore, remarriage after divorce is adultery (Luke 16:18). Furthermore, since God seals this covenant, divorce is rejection of God. God, therefore, hates divorce (Malachi 2:16) and is not pleased with the offerings of those who divorce their spouse (Malachi 2: 13-14).