This topic is in regards to the ongoing controversy regarding gay marriages and the right winged response that it should not be allowed because the bible defines marriage as a union between man and woman. I've searched electronic bibles and have had no success finding a definition.
2006-09-19 19:47:56 · 12 answers · asked by swimmer55 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
.Gen 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Gen 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Gen 2:23 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.
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
2006-09-19 19:52:12 · answer #1 · answered by ted.nardo 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Marriage as a religious institution is defined as being between a man and a woman. However, from a secular and legal point of view there is no rational reason to deny same-sex couples the same legal benefits and protections of marriage that are given to heterosexual couples. If a 'government' is going to extend legal protections to couples wishing to formalize their relationship, then it should extend those protections to all couples. To do otherwise is discrimination, plain and simple.
Were same-sex marriage legalized, no religious community would be required to endorse such unions or marry any couple it did not choose to marry. Churches can and should have the right to say no to marriage for gays (or anyone else for that mater) in their congregations, just as Catholics say no to divorce, but divorce is still a legal civil option. Marriage licenses, which are granted by the state, and religious marriage, are two separate things. Rather, it is those many religious communities who recognize that gay and lesbian people are as fully created in the image of God as heterosexual people whose religious freedom is currently being violated. All faith communities - traditional, liberal, conservative, and progressive - should have the right to marry those whom they see fit to marry.
2006-09-20 03:10:13 · answer #2 · answered by rp_iowa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Matthew 9: 4 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' 5 and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
Eph 5:31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
1Co 7:2 But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Here are just a few examples! God hates homosexuality.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
2006-09-20 02:59:23 · answer #3 · answered by maranatha132 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
OT: Genesis 2:21-24
NT: Matthew 19:4-5
2006-09-20 02:56:44 · answer #4 · answered by 4x4 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Look in 1 Corinthians Chapters 6-7, Leviticus chapter 18, Romans 1:18-32. I hope these verses will help.
2006-09-20 04:13:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The issue is not necessarily a biblical one, but one that is based on religion, common sense, natural law, and practical experience.
Homosexuality has always been considered a seriously disordered state, and continues to expose those who practice it to serious dangers.
The whole of society suffers as a result.
One doesn't need to be a "right winger" or "Bible thumper" to figure that out.
2006-09-20 03:56:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here are some sciptural verses regarding homosexuality in the Bible:
Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable. [NIV Leviticus 18:22]
If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. [NIV Leviticus 20:13]
Because of this, God gave them over to their own shameful lusts. Even their women exchanging natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received themselves the penalty for their perversion. [Romans 1:26-27]
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. [KJV I Corinthians 9:19]
So, it's not a question of marriage, it's a question of homosexuality being against God.
2006-09-20 05:36:27 · answer #7 · answered by slim1234 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is nothing in the bible that defines marriage. it is only law that defines it.
Negrita:- there is never the word gay mentioned in the bible. The word gay was not around for a long time after the supposed bible was written.
2006-09-20 02:58:10 · answer #8 · answered by navymt 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
genesis tell us that in the beginning of the earth God created Adam and then created Eve also the cities of Sodoma and Gomorra were destroyed on count that there were gays there were people also with animals etc. it was against God laws
I do not hate gays I am just answering your question ...I will never Judge God will that is the only thing I can say
2006-09-20 02:57:19 · answer #9 · answered by Yami 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
read Genesis
2006-09-20 02:49:35 · answer #10 · answered by norm s 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋