It seems like the most popular topic in the news these days
is gay-marriage and should it be allowed or not.
What does God say about Gay marriage? Should the Church approve of Gay
Marriage? Should Christians accept Gay
Marriage? What does the bible say about
Gay Marriage?
Hopefully the scripture itself will answer these questions
for us.
The purpose of this article is not to condone or condemn,
but to give a scriptural perspective only.
Society will end up doing what society will do, and nothing will ever
change that. Morality based on any-ones
definition, cannot be regulated by law, but only by ones heart as an
individual.
If the gay community wants to join together, they will do
that with or without any laws, but scripturally speaking, it is impossible for
them to marry. You can call it anything
you want, but marriage. Remember I am
speaking from a biblical perspective.
The Christian conception of marriage is a sacred union
between a man and a woman that goes all the way back to Adam & Eve. When the two join together they become one
before God, and when they both give themselves over to God, then they also
become one with God. This is the way we
were created to be, man plus woman plus God all becoming one with each other.
Man was created in the image of God. Genesis 1: 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him, male and female created he them.
Genesis 2: 21 – 24 And the Lord God caused
a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken
from man, made he a woman, and brought
her unto the man. And Adam said, This is
now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because
she was taken out of Man.
In the above scripture we are told why marriage can only be
between a man and a woman. When God
created Adam, he created him in his image, and Adam was originally created both
male and female in one body. God had
created them as “one flesh” like the angels.
God later removed the female portion of Adam out of his flesh and
created Woman also in his image, so the male would have a mate to populate the
earth. Adam knew that this Woman God
presented to him had been taken from him, and he knew that the only way now the
male could be complete, would be to union himself back with the female, and the
two would become “one flesh” a complete being again.
Once Eve was taken out of Adam, he was no longer a whole,
but a half, and Eve was the other half.
When those two halves come together in marriage, they become a whole
again. This is made very clear in the scripture itself. Read Genesis 5: 1 – 2 very carefully. This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the
likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them,
and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. This verse very plainly states that God
created Man both male and female and called their name Adam.
Joining two Adams together or two Eves together does not
make a whole. They only become a whole
when the half that was whole is reunited with the half that was removed. Consider taking an orange and removing the
juice from the inside. You have two
parts of the orange. But if you wanted a
complete orange, you couldn’t take the juice from two and mix them together and
say “now I have a whole orange.” Nor
could you take the two empty orange shells and put them together without the
juice.
I hope this explains the biblical perspective of marriage,
and why it must be between a male and female only. Society can set laws governing the legal
definitions of anything, but if your desire is to be united with Gods approval,
then you must follow the biblical definition.
Why does this matter to God, you might wonder. Everything in the old testament is a sign for
the new. Adam and Eve became one through
marriage and brought forth children.
Jesus after his death on the cross was stuck in the side with a spear and
blood and water flowed just as with birth.
The death of Jesus was the birth of the church (modern day
Christianity), and the church is the bride of Christ. The union of marriage
between a man and woman joining together as one is a sign of the church getting
ready to join itself with Christ.
