Why get married?

[melvin2007]

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.

Nah Paul never said marriage was bad or anything.

Singleness may be an even higher calling, but marriage is God's norm.

[None]

Nah, God's "norm" would be a perfect marriage in the garden of Eden with no sin.

[ayin jade]

Paul said it is better to marry then to burn.

It's better not to marry, ever.

Bitter, party of one.

Im sorry your experience was bad. Not everyone's is like that. Perhaps you need to ask the Lord to remove your bitterness, not so you can fall in love again, but so that you can remove that hindrance from your life. Bitterness does poison one from the inside.

[None]

Paul said it is better to marry then to burn.

It's better not to marry, ever.

Bitter, party of one.

Im sorry your experience was bad. Not everyone's is like that. Perhaps you need to ask the Lord to remove your bitterness, not so you can fall in love again, but so that you can remove that hindrance from your life. Bitterness does poison one from the inside.

Ayin, my situation isn't what you are trying to imply. And it isn't in the "was", it's in the "is". I'm not bitter, it's more a hurt, but thank you for making it seem ugly like that.

[melvin2007]

Nah, God's "norm" would be a perfect marriage in the garden of Eden with no sin.

Then nothing would be God's "norm" after the fall of man

[None]

Nah, God's "norm" would be a perfect marriage in the garden of Eden with no sin.

Then nothing would be God's "norm" after the fall of man

That's a whole different topic.

[melvin2007]

sorry meant to say something else but didint come out clearly

[Liz4JC]

Legal marriage is instituted primarily for the protection of children.

Ditto!!!

[MeCajunboy]

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.

Cajunboy::::In my view, that's pretty much the way the world would like to head since the last 30 years anyway. Sad isn't it???

[Smalcald]

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.

Yes for some people it is better not to marry. But I think it would be a special kind of person, one who enjoyed solitude, one who liked being alone, and there are people like that, and that is fine in my opinion. These people may be called to do special things in the Kingdom.

On the sex drive pills, well there is some truth to that, in that there are certainly times when not having a sex drive would be very valuable. But then God gave us this cross, and at some level a pill would seem like cheating, we must learn to deal with our sex drives in a way that is not sinful, meaning having sex within marriage; outside of that we have the tough road to follow.

Unfortunately some married people are not sexually compatible, one has a high sex drive, and the other has a low, or sometimes no sex drive. This is a hard thing in marriage, but I think it is just another cross we must carry if we end up in that situation.