The Four-Fold Purpose of Marriage according to Christianity
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- Created on: 19-03-15 22:10
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- The Four-Fold Purpose of Marriage
- Partnership
- God didn't create us to be alone. "It is not good that the man should be alone"- Genesis 2:18
- We have a yearning for companion-ship. It is part of our spiritual make-up.
- This divinely inspired partnership was designed to fortify both participants in ways that mere words cannot express.
- Pleasure
- Relaxes and fortifies us through sexual relations.
- God created us with a sex drive and intended for men and women to express themselves and joyfully fulfil their sexual desires.
- It can be argued that God engineered our body parts to fit perfectly together.
- Procreation
- It is a vital aspect of the marriage
- The conceiving and bearing of offspring
- The conceiving and bearing of offspring
- Genesis 1:28 "Be fruitful and multiply and full the earth"
- Jeremiah 29:5-6 "Take wives, and have sons and daughters"
- It is a vital aspect of the marriage
- Purity
- God purposefully created marriage to protect humans from the consequen-ces of sexual immorality.
- Hebrews 13:4 "Let marriage be held in honour among all....God will judge the immoral and adulterous"
- God draws a firm line against casual and illicit sex. Marriage is the only pathway.
- Roman Catholics may use Natural Law to emphasis that procreation takes primacy over the other purposes, whereas others such as Quakers might say that partnership is of primary importance.
- Partnership
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