The bible is not the origin or the exclusive guide to marriage.
Peace LibertyLady,
Again, great question.
Marriage in the bible was more traditional, in the sense that the marriage was a bonding of a man and a woman including the uniting of clans, tribes or families. There usually was ritual ceremony and oaths but, depending on the circumstance, it was a verbal based agreement, using cultural norms and beliefs as a guide to meaning.
I think it is impossible to use the bible to understand modern day marriage, because marriage is more cultural, than it is religious. Spirituality was usually so imbued intrinsically in everything and was as innate as eating and drinking to most early cultures.
I think we uniquely emotionalize and spiritualize marriage much more than the early biblical societies.
Marriage use to be a necessary-given; there was no such thing as the swinging single life, as we know it today.
Another thing is, almost all of the well-known prophets were polygamist that raises a whole different set of ideas and ethics, which are not always translatable to modern European courtship and matrimony.
I think monogamous contractual marriage has nothing to do with the original cultural idea of marriage. In this marital structure, women were originally no more than property (chattel), domestic workers (maids) and heir-bearers (breeders). If you study Greek culture, patriarchal Rome and the origins of European Christendom, you will probably have a better understanding of modern marriage than trying to understand what the bible instructs.
Again, regardless of what people say, marriage is more cultural than religious.
Peace,
Sun Ship
PS - link to this post for some other insights and documentation:
http://www.destee.com/forums/showpost.php?p=196050&postcount=45
Matter of fact the whole thread is interesting
http://www.destee.com/forums/showpost.php?p=142804&postcount=1
Peace LibertyLady,
Again, great question.
Marriage in the bible was more traditional, in the sense that the marriage was a bonding of a man and a woman including the uniting of clans, tribes or families. There usually was ritual ceremony and oaths but, depending on the circumstance, it was a verbal based agreement, using cultural norms and beliefs as a guide to meaning.
I think it is impossible to use the bible to understand modern day marriage, because marriage is more cultural, than it is religious. Spirituality was usually so imbued intrinsically in everything and was as innate as eating and drinking to most early cultures.
I think we uniquely emotionalize and spiritualize marriage much more than the early biblical societies.
Marriage use to be a necessary-given; there was no such thing as the swinging single life, as we know it today.
Another thing is, almost all of the well-known prophets were polygamist that raises a whole different set of ideas and ethics, which are not always translatable to modern European courtship and matrimony.
I think monogamous contractual marriage has nothing to do with the original cultural idea of marriage. In this marital structure, women were originally no more than property (chattel), domestic workers (maids) and heir-bearers (breeders). If you study Greek culture, patriarchal Rome and the origins of European Christendom, you will probably have a better understanding of modern marriage than trying to understand what the bible instructs.
Again, regardless of what people say, marriage is more cultural than religious.
Peace,
Sun Ship
PS - link to this post for some other insights and documentation:
http://www.destee.com/forums/showpost.php?p=196050&postcount=45
Matter of fact the whole thread is interesting
http://www.destee.com/forums/showpost.php?p=142804&postcount=1
dessie its not about the how much responding i get...its about the people who respond that i can get their opinions from
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