2007-01-10 14:16:51 · 32 answers · asked by Litldragon67 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Adam and Eve married themselves.
All couples marry themselves when they pronounce the marriage vows. The priest is just there to assist, act as a witness and to bless the marriage.
With love in Christ.
2007-01-13 17:02:22 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well to begin with there was no sin in the Garden of Eden until Eve gave Adam the apple and he ate from it. Their not abiding by God's one request of not taking from that tree and eating it's fruit was the beginning of sin in man's world. After which, they both realized their nakedness and were embarrassed by it. But Adam and Eve were made for each other, and had been given God's blessing to procreate prior to this incident.
As for sex out of wedlock, I do believe that idea was started to ensure that people didn't get together based on lust alone, but with a thought out commitment to be monogomous. Imagine if that had happened - perhaps there would be no STD's! LOL.
The Bible also says to lust in one's heart and mind is the same as committing the sin of adultery, so I do believe that the 'sin' lies not in the act itself, but in how you perceive it.
2007-01-11 10:58:10 · answer #2 · answered by blsmtfm1955 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Marriage wasn't defined until there were more than two people. Marriage isn't INclusive, it's EXclusive. It is less than an agreement to be together than an agreement to be with no one else. If there is no one else, then marriage is meaningless.
Sin was also not defined until after the fall.
Nevertheless, there was a period of time in which Adam and Eve were not the only sinners alive. To that I'm going to have to go with the crowd and say that God married them. Here's the wedding ceremony.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%202:23-24;&version=31;
And sex outside of wedlock (fornication) is most CERTAINLY a sin.
http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=fornication&qs_version=49
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fornication
2007-01-10 14:50:44 · answer #3 · answered by SmartAlex 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The term wedlock does not mean specifically a ceremony which
was conducted by some holy man and sanctioned by a civil law. As with all interactions of man and providence the thing is a matter of the heart
2007-01-10 14:24:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God CREATED Eve from Adam for Adam.
Under the old idea "There is someone made for everyone"...it's just a lot harder to find them now that the world is so crowded and full of people.
2007-01-10 14:24:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God did, he brought her to Adam and gave her to him to be his wife.
Accordint to the story, God thinks to himself that the existance of the man by himself is not good, so he brings all the animals to the man for him to name them. However, none of them are found suitable to be his match. God then puts the man into a deep sleep, takes out a rib from him and closes up its place with flesh again, then fashions it into a woman. The man wakes up and God brings her to him, and when he sees her, he exclaimes "This time at last (after going through all the other animals) this one is bone of my bones and flash of my flash, she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man". The writer then comments that this is why there is marriage. In other words, the story of the marriage of Adam and Eve, the way God created them and brought them together, tells us why men and women get married. They become complete as one flesh. Marriage is like a man being reunited with his missig rib.
2007-01-10 15:33:01 · answer #6 · answered by Beng T 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Didn't Adam and Eve sin quite frequently? I believe that they were evicted from the Garden of Eden for sinning! When they ate the forbidden apple, their eyes were opened to the fact that they were naked; no doubt, at that point they had sex without having been married, and for that they were banished from the Garden, etc...
2007-01-10 14:31:12 · answer #7 · answered by Lynci 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Don't you know! They just multiplied! How believable is that! And God said let there be a lot of Adams and Eves so that they can make more little Adams and Eves.
Or they were incest. EWWWWWW!
2007-01-10 14:21:37 · answer #8 · answered by Jamie 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God....
marriage was made to...
A) preserve the pure sexual relationships between a MAN and a WOMAN
B) bring about children in a way God designed - in a loving family
C) to make it harder to get hurt emotionally, as if a spouse remains faithful, no one feels less than or cheated on
AND DON'T QUESTION ME ON THIS!
2007-01-10 14:23:10 · answer #9 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God gave Eve to Adam as his wife.
2007-01-10 14:20:50 · answer #10 · answered by Jo 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋