Why get married?

[Guest Biblicist]

God created marriage for our benefit.

Genesis 2:18-24 18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.

But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23 The man said,

"This is now bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called 'woman, '

for she was taken out of man."

24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

God created marriage to help us resist temptation.

1 Corinthians 7:1-2 1 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry. 2 But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

It is not necessary to marry. [i have known several woman throughout my life who never married.]

1 Corinthians 7:7 But I wish everyone were single, just as I am. But God gives to some the gift of marriage, and to others the gift of singleness.[NLT]

Marriage is honorable.

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

God says marriage is a good thing.

Proverbs 18:22 He who finds a wife finds what is good

and receives favor from the LORD.

Marriage is a picture of the relationship between Christ and the church.

Revelation 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 19:7 "Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready."

Isaiah 65:2 For as a young man marries a virgin,So your sons will marry you; And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So your God will rejoice over you.

[Smalcald]

Good answers I think all around.

Another question may be, what would the world look like with no marriage at all, no boundaries for romantic relationships, just random involvement with no future and no expectations? It seems the impact on society would be great and very negative. This is why so many of us are concerned about the state of marriage in our modern culture today.

[Marnie]

God created marriage for our benefit.

God created marriage to help us resist temptation.

It is not necessary to marry.

Marriage is honorable.

God says marriage is a good thing.

Marriage is a picture of the relationship between Christ and the church.

Excellent. And I would add that marriage is not solely for propagation. That's an insulting view for people that don't like kids or can't have them.

[Vickilynn]

God created marriage for our benefit.

God created marriage to help us resist temptation.

It is not necessary to marry.

Marriage is honorable.

God says marriage is a good thing.

Marriage is a picture of the relationship between Christ and the church.

Excellent. And I would add that marriage is not solely for propagation. That's an insulting view for people that don't like kids or can't have them.

Shalom,

Amen all around.

From someone who has been married one time and for soon-to-be 25 years, I can speak very highly of it, IF Jesus is glorified in the marriage, and the husband and wife live according to the Word.

[None]

Why get married?, What is the point really??

To torture us.

[Guest Biblicist]

Why get married?, What is the point really??

To torture us.

[None]

Why get married?, What is the point really??

To torture us.

I seriously believe that.

[kittylover0991]

Why get married?, What is the point really??

To torture us.

None, you're horrible

Thankyou everyone so very much I had forgotten that God provided Adam with a helpmeet and I guess I have these questions because I'm not married or anywhere close for that matter (that I know of ). Companionship and many of the things mentioned here and reasons that I really want to get married.. have someone to hold me close, some I can be there for when he is in need and then the little things that you hear that couples do for each other that are just so sweet... to raise a family in the Lord, but the more I thought about it, the more I wondered as to "why get married". As already said, and as shown, there are *many* different reasons to get married and it seems that most of them (all from what I saw) are reasonable and legit reasons to get married... I just know that marraige isn't all about certain aspects that are shown on the TV, on the internet, in stores, and where I go to school... I just know that there has to be so much more to it and I was wondering if companionship is really honorable because the thought of "I want someone to hold me close... warmth, etc.. Some to grow old with", I guess becuase I can't see that far, seems almost selfish to me... unless you look at being there for them... loving them and being there and helping them grow too... Thankyou

[IreneM]

marriage is to be worked at

most don't want to bother it is easy to divorce

Marriage and divorce was addressed on TBN Paul crouch said

if I took everyone off who is divorced and remarried I would loose half of my preachers

NOW THAT IS A SAD STATEMENT comming from a chrisitian TV station

christian divorce rate is just as high as non christians

marriage is work and if you don't want to work at it don't do it

lets also put this in

Paul said it is better to marry then to burn

marriage is the legal way to have sex and all this sleeping around now there will be a price to pay

no one sees any thing wrong with premarital sex except the christians Well God sees alot wrong with it

In Christ

IreneM

[None]

Paul said it is better to marry then to burn.

I'm pretty sure there are pills now for this "burn" Paul was speaking of, given that it's 2007, the medicated generation.

That is, if someone truely had a problem. There are diet pills and people find nothing wrong with taking these, why not antisexdrive pills? They take day-after pills(just in case), possibly killing a child, why not prevent the whole problem before it starts and take an antisexdrive pill? They do it for perverts who target children. Pharmaceutical companies won't put money into this type of research like they do birthcontrol pills because it would make too much sense for satan's cause not to do so.

It's better not to marry, ever.

I'm sorry if that sounds horrible but, hey, Paul agrees.