Why don't Christians practice traditional marriage as God intended?
Traditional marriage = arranged marriage. Did God give Adam a choice between Eve and other women? No, he did not.
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And he certainly did not require Adam to get down on one knee and ask for Eve's permission.
THE BATTLE AXE: On Being Good Stewards (12/17/2013)—(6.) Stewardship pertains to all the resources for life from GOD, and not merely to money and finances. Our abilities, intellect, skills, and talents come to us as investments from GOD, and should provide a return to GOD in such aspects as honor, glory, obedience, reverence, thanksgiving, and worship. Believers in Jesus are to provide leadership as stewards in the home, the community, and the workplace. (7.) The work of a sacred steward is the ministry of a prophet and spokesperson from GOD, for the steward is an agent and mediator specially appointed to regulate and distribute from the divine supply. Because believers receive from godly abundance, and are commanded to serve all who are needy, we are often shocked and shaken (as were the apostles of Jesus) to find that we ourselves do not have enough for all. On the one hand, we know whatever we give, or spend in our work as stewards, is to be understood as “on loan” to GOD, and the Almighty will repay. On the other hand, renewing our supply may not be done immediately, and according to any human payment schedule. Thus, in addition to giving over material goods and resources to the needy, the steward must continuously practice and provide to GOD acknowledgment, attention to detail, dutifulness, faithfulness, gratitude, humility, longsuffering, patience, praise, truthfulness, and worship. Believers are correct to challenge themselves, push themselves, and so far as possible answer every request. Yet, believers are to avoid “beating themselves up,” and “charging GOD foolishly.” Where we find ourselves with only five loaves and two fishes, and are unable to multiply and share with a multitude of thousands, our readiness to serve and act with faith is not to be reduced or weakened. The miracles of feeding five and then seven thousand began with an act of creation to establish divine order (seating everyone in groups of fifty). Just as when we began, our focus is to continue uninterrupted upon the spiritual gifts, and upon the eternal and unseen things. We must not forget that, in the process of GOD, by giving to just one, a blessing may come upon all (see 2nd Corinthians 5: 14-17 and Romans 5: 12-17, KJV). Also, see Proverbs 19: 17, James 1: 27, James 2: 15-18, Matthew 16: 9-11, Luke 6: 1-15 and 25-41, 1st John 3: 16-18, 2nd Corinthians 4: 15-18, King James Version.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. (Matthew 19: 3-11, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: The Bible and Genealogy (09/10/2013); Why GOD Does Not Tell All (09/11/2013); Desire for Love? (07/05/2013); Errors of King Solomon? (06/13/2013); Salvation for Atheists (06/14/2013); The Church as a Bride? (05/15/2013); How Do I Repent? (05/16/2013); Family and Romance (10/13/2012); Why Courage? (10/14/2012)
“Anon”, here are a few points that have been useful for understanding of marriage among many Christian believers:
(1.) Marriage as a social institution is defined and structured by the “world,” and is distinct from marriage and holy matrimony that conform to divine law, and sacred presence in relationship. Mankind has created and developed the world as a system of interconnected beliefs and practices that make contact and exchange easier, permit communication, and promote survival.
(2.) GOD, who is spirit, has created and put forth mankind as well as the material sphere for human existence (i.e., the earth), while mankind, not GOD, generates and puts forth the world. Although many of the patterns, rules and standards that make up the world speak of GOD and spirit, they do so using the frameworks of time, space and finite awareness.
(3.) What the world calls the “marriage” of the male, Adam, to the female, Adam (as she was called by GOD), can not be properly understood using only the tools of the world—and the same may be said for family, incest, love, parenting and populating the earth. Thinking after the world, many fail to realize that both marriage and divorce are emblems of divine authority (what GOD has joined together, etc.). The world defines good/bad, real/unreal, right/wrong, true/false and many other aspects of its own existence centering only upon flesh (i.e., appetite such as hunger, thirst, sexual craving; sense such as hearing, tasting, touching; and mental activity such as desire, imagination, reasoning, recall).
There is far more to be said, correctly shared, and spiritually understood. ( For example, (4.) Eve—the name given by the male to the female—means “mother of all living.” While Eve gave birth to her own kind, and first accomplished human reproduction in the earth, Eve was to be a “caretaker” of all, not the one to give birth to every species and kind upon the earth. In fulfillment of divine purpose, Eve was to be a “life companion” to Adam, that would not separate Adam from GOD.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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