Homosexuals have exposed the traditional marriage fallacy, which is so steadfastly embraced and practiced by Christendom. Christendom has vehemently fought off the tenacious demands from homosexuals’ claims to their equal right to marry, like heterosexual couples. Like heterosexuals, homosexuals feel they have just as much right to vow their commitment and love to one another, and it should be sanctioned and acknowledged by the church and secular government that they have done so.
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Is it possible that homosexuals will be the catalyst in forcing Christendom to finally realize that the traditional marriage concept (and its dissection) is a secular, unbiblical standard, which is defined by men and not recognized by the God who created and designed marriage from the beginning? Will the church of God be placed in a corner, for the world to behold, where Christ’s body will either acquire the understanding and begin to practice true God-ordained Biblical marriage or surrender and share their secularized marriage concepts with homosexuals, along with any other contemptible deviant connections desiring to be recognized as marriage by a worldly government? No, they haven’t been, and that doesn’t bode well for Christendom.
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If Christendom were to comprehend and apply the Biblical truth of marriage and its violation, instead of the false concepts of secular marriage now exercised, it would take away all claims homosexuals tout as reasons for equality, as well as resolve the church’s perplexity regarding its premarital sex and divorce dilemma. Unfortunately, the church has taken sacred Biblical marriage, created and ordained by God, and has corrupted it with the traditions of men. Matthew 15:9 “But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” (KJV)
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The story of Sampson and Delilah in Judges Chapter 16 is a perfect example of the church’s past and present direction. As Sampson was attracted to and flirted with Delilah (the ungodly world), he was lured into her deception, causing him to lose his ability to defend Israel, power with God as a representative of His glory, and victory over his enemies, through which he lost his freedom and life. The story of this godly man’s misguided antics depicts the church’s position today. Because of the church’s increasing love and aspiration for the world, it has “fallen asleep in the arms” of the world, thereby allowing the world to strip it of its power and purpose, fashion its concepts, and determine its destiny.
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Even though the church rightfully acknowledges that marriage is between a man and a woman (in most cases), its being asleep is causing it to be ignorant of how its acceptance and promotion of the unbiblical traditional marriage concept allows anyone to claim equality to it. This “unbiblical traditional marriage concept” accepted by the church is why it is so easy for ungodly people to adopt the same concept in their marriages. This has been the case for non-Christian heterosexuals for how long? Now look at who is staking their claim as well. What’s next?
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The secular traditional way of marriage is not God’s way and cannot be defended in the Bible.
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Let me point out some aspects used by Christians to justify their marriages, which non-Christians and homosexuals use for defense in their marriages as well, yet are not defensible Biblically, and do not make a marriage before God:
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1. They love each other – Love does not make a marriage. The marriage union between Christian heterosexuals can exist whether love is present or not. A lack thereof does not hinder it, nor extinguish it.
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2. They say their vows to one another publicly (which some people deem as a covenant, wrongly) – Which vow is acceptable to God, or does any vow do? Some have vowed “as long as our love shall last.” Again, for Christian heterosexuals, marriage can exist with or without vows conveyed.
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3. Never, in Scripture, will you ever find a church leader, let alone any government official, marrying two people. Neither of them has any authority with God whatsoever. They cannot marry anyone. In fact, a church leader is nothing more than an agent of the government concerning marriage.
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4. Commitment – Christian heterosexuals have no choice but to be committed to one another once married; that is, if they don’t want to be committed to fornication.
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5. Neither the church nor the government is an authority on whether two people are married or whether their marriage can be annulled, allowing them to be remarried. God decides that alone. Men are not aware of all private matters, but God is.
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Being married by God involves no documents; therefore, no lawyers or judges. Also, there is no such thing as premarital sex. When it comes to marriage, men have successfully striven to apply counterfeits in prescribing what constitutes a true marriage initiated by God, as well as excuses to justify “putting it asunder.”
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Marriage is not and cannot be defined by men because men did not make marriage. It was created at the beginning and ordained by God. He alone defines and determines marriage, when it is violated, and when it can be dissolved. This is what makes it sacred. The marriage, which the church accepts and regards as sacred, is not, because it is defined by men and leads many to sin.
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The church is ignorant of true Biblical marriage. However, I hope eventually, God’s people will wake up and have no choice but to accept the Biblical way, because they will be forced into accepting it, if they want to be sinless and separate from the world. To be in Christ, one will be separate from the world and will glorify God through their acceptance and exercise of His way in their own lives, as well as teach the world what the true way is. Otherwise, they are neither salt nor light to the world. “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.”
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My book “Biblical Marriage: What You Haven’t Been Told” is that awakening.