Marriage Addressed in the Bible
One of the main themes in the Bible is that of marriage. God tells us right away in Genesis that it isn’t right for man to be alone, and then he went about creating a woman to be man’s partner for the purposes of companionship and procreation. So what else does the Bible say about marriage? In the Bible God gives us a clear description of what marriage is. It is a union between one man and one woman. Right there He lets us know that other types of unions aren’t okay, and then He goes on to tell us the sin that many have partaken in. In the book of Romans, his disciple, Paul, tells us about God’s wrath against mankind.
He says that God’s anger was piqued when “their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones with lust for one another.” Then he goes on to tell us “Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.”
Even without this vivid description of how people were already using sex and marriage inappropriately, we can also get a picture of the way that true husbands and wives are supposed to be. Unfortunately, some of this advice can be unpalatable to modern women, and we need to keep in mind that Paul was speaking to an ancient audience within the mores of that time. Women are told to obey their husbands and allow them to be the heads of the households. And husbands are told to leave their mothers and fathers and love their wives as themselves.
The Bible outlines no plan for divorce. In fact, in the gospel of Matthew, Jesus very specifically tells us that “anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness and marries another woman commits adultery.” While He goes on to say that it isn’t necessary to marry at all in order to devote yourself to the church, He also says that if anyone can accept His marital teachings, then they should go ahead and marry. After all, children are intended to be born only within a marriage, and so marriage is necessary for the continuance of the human race.
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