Marriage for Adam and Eve, and sexual sin are topics, today. Also, there is more on immortality. The “Yahoo! Answers” writer using the ID “Dorian Black” (Level 2 with 499 points, a member since June 17, 2011) posted the following:
Were Adam and Eve even married?
The bible says sex outside of marriage is a sin.
THE BATTLE AXE: Immortality (02/08/2014)—Since the beginning, the excellence of humanity was to be its intimate relationship with GOD, not its longevity. Knowledge, life, eternal purpose, and truth are not to be destroyed because of sin; however, they are all being changed and transformed through operations of GOD in Christ. Through law, intimacy is achieved as obedience where one puts aside their own will to affirm and carry out the will of another. Intimacy as the sharing of what is otherwise hidden or secret is accomplished as communion, prayer and revelation. Intimacy is achieved as love when one adds value, and unselfishly provides benefit to another. Through Jesus Christ, intimacy is achieved as union where there is agreement, mutual consent, oneness, and sameness of spirit content.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts. And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Malachi 2: 10-17, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Traditional Marriage? (12/18/2013); GOD Enjoys Judgment? (12/19/2013); About Sabbath (10/16/2013); We Shall Behold Him (10/17/2013); Desire for Love? (07/05/2013); The Church as a Bride? (05/15/2013); How Do I Repent? (05/16/2013); A Second Adam? (03/25/2013); GOD Hiding in Plain Sight (03/26/2013); A Life Companion? (11/07/2012); On Asking Why (11/08/2012)
“Dorian Black”, here are some points Christian believers have been privileged to receive by operation of the imparted, indwelling Spirit:
(1.) Initially, the being that was formed and breathed into by GOD was intended to be a companion to the Creator, and therefore was not regarded as “alone”. The man was placed within a living sphere (the earth), and would be a caretaker of all it would contain. With formation of the woman, the male and female were a single “person” before GOD; and so they shared a single name, Adam. All other life forms had been paired, and were essential to one another for reproduction. Similarly, Adam and Eve were to be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
(2.) Divine law existed in the place of celestial presence (we say, heaven) as the expressed will of GOD (we say, the Word) before the creation of Adam. Sin first began to operate among the holy angels as hidden opposition to the continued existence of divine law, later, became defiance, and further on, was recognized as open rebellion. The spirit union of the pair proceeded from GOD, and in social terms theirs was an “arranged marriage.” Their sexual joining was not an act of disobedience (some say, original sin), or transgression of the law; and was consistent with the divine design.
There is far more to be said, properly shared, and spiritually understood. (For example, (3.) Adam and Eve did not have to meet the same challenges as couples today where marriage also pertains to birth rights, proper passage through growth and developmental stages, inheritance, rites of passage, social customs, and cultural traditions. Increasingly now, only holy matrimony establishes the original covenant relationship between GOD and mankind—where the male and female become one flesh, and GOD is the other.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. (1st Peter 3: 7, KJV)
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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