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Getting married...
before GOD or before the church?!
Many people think, that getting married in church is the only way you can get married 'before GOD'. Clearly those people are blind to the fact, that couples have been marrying thousands of years before the churches as we know now were established. Then what is gettting married really about? A quest through the Bible.

Marriage: a lifelong commitment between man and wife
According to the Bible marriage is the mutually declared intention to stay and live with eachother as a unity; as man and wife.

And that vow is also binding before GOD; read Exodus 20:14. Clearly this vow isnot about 'the formal authority' solemnizing the marriage in 'the proper way', but simply that a man and a woman mutually declare their vow; GOD being their Witness!

Mark 12:25

- Jesus tells that getting married is between men and women

'For when they rise from the dead, they [men and women] neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.'.

Isaiah 62:5 - marriage is between a man and a woman
'For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee'.

1 Corinthians 7:39 - Marriage binds a man and a woman by life
'A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord'.

Marriage: a commitment acknowledged by GOD
When a man and a woman are connected by their wedding-vows GOD is their Witness. Also GOD considered this unity so precious and important, that HE dedicated one of His Commandments -the 7th Commandment- to the marriage. Committing adultery -breaking the unity between man and woman- is not allowed by GOD. Doing so means not only ending the marriage, nut also means ending your [spiritual] relationship with GOD.

The married state: being a unity and staying a unity!
Obviously GOD has intended the married state between man and woman to last forever. Breaking that unity also means breaking with GOD.

Whoever quits the married state damages his- or her spouse and him- or herself and possible offspring and other family mentally and physically. Moreover: divorce, adultery, neglect and assault are a very bad example for others...

Exodus 20:14 - the 7^th Commandment of GOD
'You shall not commit adultery'.
1 Corinthians6:9-10 - Adulterers/fornicators willnot go to Heaven
'Or 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 men, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God'.

When it is prudent not to marry
Jesus makes it very clear, that in certain cases in which one shouldnot marry; he names 'adultery' and 'fornication' as important reasons not to (re-)marry.

Matthew 19:9-10 - When marrying is not expedient...
'And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery. The disciples say unto him, If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry'.

The Bible mentions that a marriage is between a man and a woman; equal sexes cannot marry simply because the Bible doesnot call that commitment marriage, but fornication or sexual immoral.

GOD wants His Children to be- and to stay healthy; and the example of His Children has to be healthy for others in the future also. Fornication and adultery isnot healthy for body and mind according to biblical standards.

1 Corinthians 6:9

- Adulterers/sexual immoral people willnot be given eternal life
'Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God'.

There is no mistake about it: the Bible clearly reveals there is no eternal life in Heaven for those that commit adultery or for people that are living a sexual immoral life.
Not only they trespass Gods Commandments and consequently they go against Gods Wil, but they are also showing 'bad fruit' and a bad example in that way for others.

Galathians 5:19-21 - Fornicators do not get eternal life in Heaven
'Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.'.

Marriage & a new life in Heaven...
Jesus tells us, that men and women do not marry in Heaven. Jesus tells us this because of a trick-question he was asked 'about a woman that married multiple men and how all these marriages will work out in Heaven...'.

Luke 20:34-36 - Resurrected people do not marry in Heaven
'And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection'.
1 Peter 2:9 - Gods People: a royal Priesthood
'But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light'.
Matthew 22:30 -'For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven'.

There are churches and churchmembers [particulary Roman Catholics] that claim only unmarried people will inherent Gods Kingdom and will serve in a royal Priesthood, but their opinion is clearly based on manipulated churchteachings not in line with what Jesus teaches and tells us directly!

Matthew 22:30 and 1Peter2:9 are very clear on what life will be like after the Resurrection in Heaven and how men and women will live there! These Bible-verses are very clear on what the true meaning of Luke 20:34-36.

Marriage: for eachother and (be)for(e) GOD
The Bible clearly tells us, that marriage is a personal commitment between a man and a woman; a commitment during their lives. Also a commitment that is not allowed to be broken in any way. Everyone that breakes of the marriage willnot receive eternal life in Heaven.

So marriage is all about the spouses, their families and GOD; the personal vows of spouses are binding for them and for GOD. The way in which a the State/country and other authorities formally close marriages stands totally apart from the personal vows of spouses before GOD.

Churches are denying the Gospel and going against the testimony and teachings of Christ and the apostles, because they worship the pagan 'trinity-godhead'. In that anti-Christ/anti-Gospel state of mind and 'church-setting'church-marriages can never be 'before GOD'.

When a man and a woman want to marry they only have to declare to eachother they want to be committed as man and wife; of course with their family or other persons as their witnessess. And also GOD will declare their marriages valid and binding! Having intercouse is the 'confirmation' of that commitment.

That governments want marriages to take place in a formal way with formal people and documents [marriaged for the State and being registrated as such] is only so the laws of the countries can be applied; such as tax-laws, succession-laws, registration-laws, health-care, etc.

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