The Truth Is Not Disrespect

In scripture, it is only a public commitment. If Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding/marriage, how could you conceive of anything else?

 

So there are no private or secret weddings?

 

See if you can find one in scripture?

 

So, you're in effect saying that there is such a thing as gay marriage. Is that right?

 

Well, you just undid your argument. What is marriage according to the Scriptures?

 

Trying to be clever, or merely avoiding the logical conclusion?

 

The ceremony is an outward display of an inward commitment ... like baptism. The ceremony doesn’t make a couple married. Nor do the rings on fingers.

And the institution of marriage is a reflection of Christ and The Church.

That reflection being with any but one man and one woman is a false picture of the relationship Christ has with The Church. Literally a perversion.

ED @Aaron

One man ... one woman.

 

There is actually more to the ceremony than that. Without an actual exchange of vows in the presence of witnesses (public or private), no one enters into a marriage.

 

I mean the typical pomp/circumstance. Yes, I realize there needs to be witnesses. (2?) ... but a couple can legitimately be married without a 5 digit ceremony.

I wish we’d get the govt out of the marriage businesses, but it seems that won’t happen until the ultimate Reconciliation.

 

No one here yet was willing to say that those who imagine themselves to be the opposite gender are in truth as they imagine, yet some are willing to say they can enter into covenant as they imagine and it becomes true because a government official said so.

Let me put the question to you another way . . .

Can a man become one flesh with another man?

 

No

 

It isn't. You just didn't come right out and say it. You appeared to be agreeing with Dave.

 

What is marriage according to the scriptures? Answer this if you can.

 

In the Bible, it was a ceremony. But State law still constitutes a legal marriage/wedding in fact.