Good News For Youth (GNFY) published under the oversight of the Alkire Rd Church of Christ elders and posted by permission of the editor.
| In today’s news, you hear much about
what is called "same-sex" marriages. What is promoted by such
is a man married to a man or a woman being married to a woman. What
about such marriages? Are they approved by God?
In discussing such issues, many want to leave God out of the picture. Some are more concerned about the feelings and the thinking of man than the will of God. As we turn to the Bible, we can see, understand and know how God feels about "same-sex" marriages.
"The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for ever 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 not more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder" (Matthew 19:3-6).
Concerning marriage, God from the beginning ordained that it was to be a male and female joined together. In Genesis 2:18 we read that God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make an help meet for him."
What was it that God gave to man to be his help meet? Was it some animal? No! Was it another man? No! It was a woman. "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man" (Genesis 2:21-23). |
God made "woman", not
another "man" for man. As one has said, "God gave
Eve not Steve for Adam!"
Paul said that a "man" is to have his own "wife" and a "woman" to have her own "husband." It is not "man" with "man" nor "woman" with "woman."
"Same-sex" marriages are contrary to God’s plan. Marriage is to be between "man" and "woman." This has been true from the beginning. "Same-sex" marriages are not pleasing to God; they constitute a homosexual relationship.
Homosexuality is condemned by the scriptures:Since homosexuality is condemned by God and "same-sex" marriages are homosexual, we must, therefore, conclude that such marriages are not approved by God.
Since God is the originator of marriage, He knows what is best. We need to listen to God and build our marriages upon His word to make them be pleasing to Him. |
-- Jerry W. Joseph, October 2000 --
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