In spite of the fact that marriage isn't the particular area of the Christian church, the Bible and Christian scholars do have a considerable amount to state on the issue.
Clearly, being religious or professing Christian beliefs isn't a cure, it doesn't guarantee a blissful marriage.
Christian writers have remarked on the relationship between their faith and marriage. Husbands should love their spouses as their own bodies. He who cherishes his wife adores himself. Nobody ever abhorred their own body, however they bolster and care for their body, similarly as Christ does the church, for we are members from his body.
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
Christians approach marriage as a covenant, a relationship in light of promises and duty, not simply sentiments, however love is assuredly included.
The idea of marriage as a covenant is established in the Hebrew faith, and early Christians saved the conviction also. God's covenant with Israel was established on his promise to be faithful to Israel. The Hebrew people promised faithfulness to God too, however the Bible doesn't conceal that they battled and frequently neglected to keep that vow.
To talk about marriage as a covenant is to state that the partners make common promises about the way they will live later on, not only declarations of how they feel in the present. The undertaking to live into those promises, staying faithful to their covenant, will shape their characters throughout the years.
Christian marriage is additionally particularly in view of agapē, the Greek word utilized as a part of Jesus' lessons and early Christian works to portray the sort of affection God communicates to human beings.
Agapē is a unique idea, so essential that Paul committed an entire segment of his first letter to the Corinthians to characterizing it. You may have heard an outstanding expression from this segment:
Love is patient, love is kind.
Paul at that point goes ahead to portray agapē as a sacrificial method for loving others.
Agapē is found in a dynamic decision one makes about how to behave toward another, not a contingent feeling one has toward somebody.
Every spouse consistently attempts to know, love, and obey Jesus, and to take after his case.
Along these lines, a couple figure out how to express agapē and stay faithful to their covenant. As they practice the Christian faith together, they push toward each other, becoming together enamored and solidarity.
Shouldn't something be said about a marriage in which just a single spouse is a follower of Jesus? Could that marriage ever be a "Christian marriage"?
Paul really expounds on such a case in 1 Corinthians 7:12– 16. He urges the trusting partner to remain wedded to their unbelieving spouse as a result of the believer's impact on their partner and children.
One individual who is trying to take after Jesus Christ, figuring out how to live out of agapē, and keeping the promises of the covenant carries Christ's quality into the marriage.
Christian or not, marriage is troublesome for any couple to maintain over a lifetime.
Be that as it may, Christian marriage offers trust.
The expectation that a couple, by purposefully choosing to figure out how to love faithfully and sacrificially as Jesus did, may keep their covenant promises for a lifetime.
True words mate
Marriage is very essential in the kingdom
Nicely noted @iksilva. Truly, marriage is a practical experience birthed out of a practical feeling called LOVE. The same seed of love that initiated the relationship is still what will nourish the sacred union till the very end.
Spiritual intimacy will draw you closer as a couple … and it will help you stand strong in every season that comes.
I think this is an interesting mainstream Christian look at an issue that to be honest is completely bass-akwards. Look at Israel divorce and process they follow Torah.
Marriage - License granted by a Trustee to benefit the State in that all of the fruits of that MERGER / Marriage is the State's. Hence the Birth Certificate and it's billion rabbit Holes.
Matrimony - The Biblical concept of a man and a womb-man becoming one flesh, one mind - one.
The government should not be. Good place to end but I have to continue. the government should not be involved in marriages or divorces Churches should be! Christians should pay more attention to God and His WORD and a lot less to Man and his Law. Just because it is Legal don't make it Lawful or Right and God accepts what God accepts. No man, ever, can change God's Law or wishes and commandments.
Marriage/Matrimony doesn't work today because government makes more off broken homes and actually makes it easier and more attractive for divorce. A good marriage takes more than Faith in God just like Salvation takes more than Faith.
Faith without works is Dead, a good marriage takes work.
Thanks for the read though, I did enjoy it's perspective.
Marriage definitely isn't what it used to be, i wonder quite a bit if anyone should even be getting married anymore... The only marriage that matters is between heave and earth, between Christ and His church.
If a marriage is built on Christ, bit will stand the teat of time......
Trust God to keep your marriage.
Thanks for sharing
It takes both parties gcing 100%. Many marriages are ruined from the beginning as the couple didn’t honor God during the dating stages. God really knows how to make it work. Just to get His people to obey is the difficult part. Every marriage will have its difficult times. And the people that stay together during the difficult times, are stronger afterwards.
Nice post, im new here to steemit, just trying to get in touch with the people of God here. I made my first post today and had to see what others thought of our marriage into Christ... Something that i cover quite often in my mission to deliver the gospel to others.
Good job!
I've never really understood the concept of marriage