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Hi there,
I have come across an unusual position on marriage.
The claim is that scripture doesn't prescribe that marriage begins with a ceremony but rather cohabitation between seriously committed partners.
On the face of it would seem to have scriptural support considering Adam and Eve, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah and Rachel, Ruth and Boaz etc.
Now I have had to face the issue of how to handle new converts previously unmarried and living together in a committed relationship - we would simply take them to the registry office and sign papers if they did not want to separate long enough to organize a wedding.
But if the scripture does not seem to make reference to God requiring a marriage ceremony then our insistence on one might be unjust.
Your thoughts on this are appreciated, fornication then would be unfaithfully violating a committed relationship.
We know that Jesus attended the wedding a Canna but we don't know if the participants were already cohabiting.
I need to say that such a position of defining marriage in this way does not sit well with me at all but mounting a scriptural argument to refute such a claim would be very helpful.
I have come across an unusual position on marriage.
The claim is that scripture doesn't prescribe that marriage begins with a ceremony but rather cohabitation between seriously committed partners.
On the face of it would seem to have scriptural support considering Adam and Eve, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah and Rachel, Ruth and Boaz etc.
Now I have had to face the issue of how to handle new converts previously unmarried and living together in a committed relationship - we would simply take them to the registry office and sign papers if they did not want to separate long enough to organize a wedding.
But if the scripture does not seem to make reference to God requiring a marriage ceremony then our insistence on one might be unjust.
Your thoughts on this are appreciated, fornication then would be unfaithfully violating a committed relationship.
We know that Jesus attended the wedding a Canna but we don't know if the participants were already cohabiting.
I need to say that such a position of defining marriage in this way does not sit well with me at all but mounting a scriptural argument to refute such a claim would be very helpful.