CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE.

GOD’S PLAN FOR MARRIAGE. By Zablon.

God created us as male and female; both male and female were created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26).

God Himself instituted marriage for three reasons.

The first reason was for fellowship.

God saw that it was not good for the man to be alone, and so He made a helper for the man (Genesis 2:18).

The second reason God instituted marriage was so that families could be established by having children.

God told the man and woman to be fruitful and increase in number (Genesis 1:28).

A third reason for marriage was for sexual satisfaction.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame (Genesis 2:24-25: Proverbs 5:15-21: Song of Songs Chapter 1-8).

Both Adam (the first man) and Eve (the first woman) Shared in dominion over all the earth (Genesis 1:26-28).

But through sin Adam and Eve fell from God’s original plan .Their sin immediately resulted in shame and separation between them (Genesis 3:7), accusation (Genesis 3:12), and the rule of husband over wife (Genesis 3:16). In addition nature was no longer under their dominion but was now their enemy (Genesis 3:17-19). It did not take long for other evils to appear, among them murder (Genesis 4:8), polygamy (Genesis 4:19), and revenge (Genesis 4:23). Divorce became common as well. The law of Moses included statutes that were intended to limit the abuses of polygamy (Exodus 21:10Deuteronomy 21:15-17) and divorce ( Deuteronomy 24:1-4), but God never wanted either polygamy or divorce, from the beginning, His ideal for mankind was that a man should remain married to one woman for life (Mathew 19:4-9). to be continued...