The definition of marriage in America has been under attack by those who would like to change its traditional meaning. Instead of the historical definition of being a bond between a man and a woman in a heterosexual relationship, the progressive argument seeks to break all ties with anything traditional and redefine "marriage" as a relationship between any two people, even two homosexuals. But why the surge to redefine marriage? If homosexual people want to live together why not just call it a civil union or a civil relationship, and seek all the benefits from the civil courts as those who are "married"?
I've been ignorant to the extent that the homosexual community has been engaged in the same sex marriage fight. It has been in the works for decades and soon the Supreme Court will decide what marriage is, at least in the eyes of our contemporary culture. It's interesting to note that the homosexual argument is based upon a secular view of the Constitution and the will of the people, and in making progress in human freedom in the here and now. But if the argument is structured from a perspective of Truth and the Bible it looks completely different as there is a Spiritual question to consider.
I'm not sure whether the attack on traditional morality relates better with the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, or with Romans 1 in general, or the fall of Rome in particular. But if the Bible is true, then the USA is going through a tremendous loss of morality in the name of personal freedom, and a Spiritual implosion is underway that will destroy any remaining Biblical authority in our culture. I guess that's what it's been all about from the beginning. There's an agenda behind the argument of freedom and equality, and it's the attack on Biblical truth. In order to normalize homosexual relationships they need to be redefined as equal with heterosexuals. And in order to be considered equal with heterosexuals, marriage itself needs to be redefined, and morality needs to change for the definition of marriage to change.
Natural law shows however that our anatomies were created male and female, one for the other, and procreation can only result from this relationship. The Bible has much to say about marriage as well, that marriage is a divine illustration between the Lord and the church, his bride, his body. This is a tremendous Spiritual truth that the Apostle Paul describes in Ephesians 5 as a great mystery. We cannot understand this completely but we can understand in our conscience it is part of the Spiritual order. In short, there's something very ordinary and something very big about marriage. It not only is the source of intimate companionship as God created, it is the illustration of what God is doing between Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:28-32, "In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church."
There is a Spiritual element in marriage because it reveals the divine relationship between the Savior and the people of God. Christ loves the church and came to the earth, lived sinlessly, taught, led, provided and died for her. And he still cares for her in the same way. This relationship is to be replicated in heterosexual marriage between husbands and wives and illustrates a Spiritual bride and groom. It is a reflection of a greater reality than just the here and the now. In the divine perspective Christ is seeking his bride to restore her from a broken relationship.
The Spiritual definition of marriage is part of the great truth of Scripture that God has a plan of redemption to call us back to him in a covenant relationship. To distort the design of marriage is to distort any illustration of a Spiritual union with Christ. The marriage between husband and wife is by creation design and is by necessity heterosexual as the husband is figurative for Christ as the wife is for the church.
The salvation that comes from Christ is like a love affair made in heaven of which humanity has been created for a personal relationship with God. It's all very good, just as being forgiven for our sins and being restored to God is the greatest joy we can experience. This is the relationship between Christ and the church, and marriage itself cannot be properly understood outside of this primary created design.
I've been ignorant to the extent that the homosexual community has been engaged in the same sex marriage fight. It has been in the works for decades and soon the Supreme Court will decide what marriage is, at least in the eyes of our contemporary culture. It's interesting to note that the homosexual argument is based upon a secular view of the Constitution and the will of the people, and in making progress in human freedom in the here and now. But if the argument is structured from a perspective of Truth and the Bible it looks completely different as there is a Spiritual question to consider.
I'm not sure whether the attack on traditional morality relates better with the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, or with Romans 1 in general, or the fall of Rome in particular. But if the Bible is true, then the USA is going through a tremendous loss of morality in the name of personal freedom, and a Spiritual implosion is underway that will destroy any remaining Biblical authority in our culture. I guess that's what it's been all about from the beginning. There's an agenda behind the argument of freedom and equality, and it's the attack on Biblical truth. In order to normalize homosexual relationships they need to be redefined as equal with heterosexuals. And in order to be considered equal with heterosexuals, marriage itself needs to be redefined, and morality needs to change for the definition of marriage to change.
Natural law shows however that our anatomies were created male and female, one for the other, and procreation can only result from this relationship. The Bible has much to say about marriage as well, that marriage is a divine illustration between the Lord and the church, his bride, his body. This is a tremendous Spiritual truth that the Apostle Paul describes in Ephesians 5 as a great mystery. We cannot understand this completely but we can understand in our conscience it is part of the Spiritual order. In short, there's something very ordinary and something very big about marriage. It not only is the source of intimate companionship as God created, it is the illustration of what God is doing between Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:28-32, "In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church."
There is a Spiritual element in marriage because it reveals the divine relationship between the Savior and the people of God. Christ loves the church and came to the earth, lived sinlessly, taught, led, provided and died for her. And he still cares for her in the same way. This relationship is to be replicated in heterosexual marriage between husbands and wives and illustrates a Spiritual bride and groom. It is a reflection of a greater reality than just the here and the now. In the divine perspective Christ is seeking his bride to restore her from a broken relationship.
The Spiritual definition of marriage is part of the great truth of Scripture that God has a plan of redemption to call us back to him in a covenant relationship. To distort the design of marriage is to distort any illustration of a Spiritual union with Christ. The marriage between husband and wife is by creation design and is by necessity heterosexual as the husband is figurative for Christ as the wife is for the church.
The salvation that comes from Christ is like a love affair made in heaven of which humanity has been created for a personal relationship with God. It's all very good, just as being forgiven for our sins and being restored to God is the greatest joy we can experience. This is the relationship between Christ and the church, and marriage itself cannot be properly understood outside of this primary created design.
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