Gay marriage, can I or not biblically

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.  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.

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.