does it mean the same back to when it was invented than it does today?
2007-01-01 14:47:36 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Adam and Eve
does it mean the same? Yes
does it still hold like in Adam and Eve's time?No, people tend to get married for the wrong reasons now. and most marriages live to see 5yrs.
The paper work involved with marriages now are for census and tax purposes
2007-01-01 14:51:16 · answer #1 · answered by Elvis 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Marriage has been around in different forms for a very long time. It basically started once the tribes of humans became more patriarchal than matriarchal. In goddess worship, the father of a child was not important, only the mother was...therefore many tribes had 'marriages' between one woman and 2-3 men. The men took care of the hunting for the women and children, and no one cared whose child it was. As the patriarchal way of life took over, women became property to be given to one man from another, and a child was concidered of the father and not the mother...The ancient Celts had 9 degrees of 'marriage' which basically insured that no child was concidered 'illegitamate or a bastard', however, they were the only ancient race to do so. The idea of one man and one woman took hold with the idea of one god...and with the legality of christianity in the ancient world, became even moreso, and developed into the of marriage we hold today sometime in about the 3rd century C.E.
2007-01-01 22:56:45 · answer #2 · answered by harpertara 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it was invented well before the time of recorded history, so there is really no way to know,,,, as to meaning,, while some im sure have always married for love and attraction, it had more of a monetary value until very recently,,,,, even back in the 1950's and 60's, it was a womans way of securing her future,,,, an odd thing is, that in some of the early human tribes, a woman would not marry, nor connect herself to just one man,,,,, unlike later times when marriage would insure support/protection/ survival of her children, the practice was to be with many men, that way, if something happened to one man, all of the others would care for the child, as it wasnt a certain ones child,,,,,,,
2007-01-01 22:55:15 · answer #3 · answered by dlin333 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep, God made Eve brought her to Adam, and there hasn't been a peaceful moment since! The problem was Adam was bored! God said, I'll fix that and God took care of Adams boredom forever! No matter what happened after that, Adam could never say he was bored again! God did not give Adam a "how to" manual when he presented Adam with Eve. The first question Adam had was how do I shut her up? God said, you are on your own! You were bored ....right? This is the story of Adam and Eve, our first married pair! Yes, it is the same today! Some things just NEVER change!
2007-01-02 00:49:27 · answer #4 · answered by Alan C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marriage has undergone a series of changes through the ages. It has been a way to blend pieces of property, to bring peace between warring factions, to provide home help for men, to produce children, and only recently has it evolved primarily to express love.
Marriage has included multiple wives, understood infidelity (concubines had a privileged place in the king's court in Israel), purchase of wives from their families, control over the choice of spouse by parents or guardians. Adopted daughters were often later married to the men who raised them.
Anyone who says that marriage has always been a stable institution has neither looked into it any earlier than the 1920s.
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2007-01-01 22:55:36 · answer #5 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't invented it was instituted by God.
God brought Eve to the man and married them. All the people did that Genesis 4:19 lamech took two wives for himself.
Didn't say took two women to sleep with. Genesis 4:17 Cain had intercourse with his wife. He was wicked and it doesn't say he just had sex with some woman. So from man's earliest beginnings he was married.
2007-01-01 22:56:36 · answer #6 · answered by Ruth 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God made Adam and then created Eve out of Adam's rib. God then brought her to him. This was the first arranged marriage in the Bible. Yes, it means a union of man and woman. The Bible goes on to say In Genesis 2:24 ""Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." This was the first recorded marriage. Marriage between a man and a woman is considered sacred by God. God is the One who defines marriage since He created it. It was the same then as it is now, between man and woman.
2007-01-01 23:00:53 · answer #7 · answered by Marie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When man first came down out of the trees. Marriage meant possession in those days. Only the strong men had wives which were their possessions. The weaker men had to sneak around to get any sex. Marriage at first was much like sex among primates today. It assured survival of the fittest. xx
2007-01-01 22:57:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
there was a time when the guys go arnd mating with da gals at random like animals...then the intellectually and physically advantaged had more girls and the rest suffered...so probably the tribe's chief brought this rule called 'marriage' where by one gal is allocated to each guy who must live together for the rest of their lives...
2007-01-01 22:54:00 · answer #9 · answered by Nesh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think humans pairing up goes back a few million years
the modern concept goes back like 700 years or so to Europe I think
I have record of ancestors of mine who married like 500 years ago.
Actually some marriages , like kings and queens go back at least 1000 years there I think.
2007-01-01 22:51:49 · answer #10 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋