Essay on Anthropology: Marriage and Divorce

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Essay on Anthropology: Marriage and Divorce

The Bible and the western culture stand in stark opposition in regards to the understanding of and acceptable practice of marriage, divorce, and remarriage. God has provided a perfect plan for man to have a marriage that is blessed. In contrast society treats the plan of marriage as anything but holy. It is no surprise then, to find out that not only do Christians struggle with how to properly view the sanctity of marriage, tragedy of divorce, but remarriage is also a consideration that becomes controversial as well. God’s word is pretty clear on where He stands on each of these subjects. With that said, one should always remember to that God has always taught that grace covers all.

First, God’s plan for marriage is nothing like the marriage lived out in society today. For example, God’s plan for marriage was designed to be between only one woman and one man (Lev. 20:13 , Romans 1:26-27). In contrast, in recent years marriage is being portrayed in society as simply a union between two people who love each other. Current culture has begun to pass laws that make it not just legal to marry same sex (Fox 2013), but even measures have begun to make it illegal to disagree with the teaching of this antibiblical lifestyle (Baklinski 2011). In another example, the Bible considers the couple married (Old Testament times) during the betrothal that was the one year waiting period before the actual wedding (Elwell 2001,740). In New Testemant times a marriage was thought to begin when the marriage bed was consimated, or when the couple stated a desore to be so (Elwell 2001, 744). God’s marriage plan is treated as a reflection of himeslef and his plan for us that is well thought out and a glory ...

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...ce and forgiveness. Divorce should be a last resort. Both marriage and remarriage should be for the glory of the Father .

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