Sorry off day, just wondering.
2007-07-30 13:22:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Of course not. That's just something the minister says to let people know his part is done and they can head for the reception.
2007-07-30 13:27:46 · answer #1 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Those exact words don't show up, no.
There was a wedding mentioned in the New Testament, the place where Jesus performed His first miracle. He turned water into wine so the party could continue and the host wouldn't be embarrassed. From the sound of the "ceremony," it sounds more like what would be the reception today. As for a ceremony, the only mention I know of was when Isaac took Rebekah into his mother's tent, and she "became his wife." Doesn't say how, exactly. In a primitive society such as that, it could have been simply a ceremonial first "coupling," to put it delicately.
Anyway, I don't think the Bible prescribes a certain method for becoming man and wife.
2007-07-30 13:31:19 · answer #2 · answered by ♥Lovebird♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it is not mentioned in the Bible. "I now pronounce you man and wife" is a way for the pastor to signal that the ceremony is coming to an end.
2007-07-30 13:41:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know, I don't think it does.
But it does say that what God has joined together, let no man put asunder...
EDIT:
Just to set the record straight, it also does not say "God says you may have many wives and concubines"...although, in the case of men who did have two or more wives, the law of Moses does say somewhere that he must treat them all equally, and that all of the children must be treated alike, as well.
God only gave man ONE wife, and Jesus clarified by saying that a man would leave his father and his mother and cleave to his WIFE (singular) and they TWO (not three, four, five, or more) shall be ONE flesh. Jesus didn't seem to think much of the divorce law, either.
I doubt He's changed His mind about that one, either...
2007-07-30 13:24:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. However the bible references two people becoming "man and wife" in a wedding ceremony.
2007-07-30 13:26:00 · answer #5 · answered by Heather N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is probably the closest:
Deuteronomy 21
12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.
2007-07-30 13:27:22 · answer #6 · answered by Holy Holly 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No and also, just as a note. The phrase that is stated in most weddings which is something like.... Where ye go I will follow, Your way is my way...
That was actually a vow between two women in the bible. Naomi and Ruth... which, btw God blessed.
2007-07-30 13:27:35 · answer #7 · answered by Niki Linde 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was more in the ways of Man and Wives from the Old Testament.
2007-07-30 13:24:44 · answer #8 · answered by Skeptic123 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope! That's what some churches say but that's not what the Bible says.
2007-07-30 14:01:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many of the Jewish traditions and rituals were oral and were not written in the original testament.
Christians only took the written word as their own but not the oral traditions; they made their own traditions instead.
By the time the Jewish oral traditions were written, many Christians did not want to be associated with the Jews.
2007-07-30 13:29:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋