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The devils of Hell have convinced preachers across this country that
one thing constitutes a marriage and that is the coming together
sexually.
The proof text for this heresy is I Corinthians 6:16
“What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?
for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.” If you only had this one
verse it would be interpreted that way. By interpreting the
scripture this way there is no sin in shacking up, seeing they have
come together and are married. Anybody who can think
for themselves know this is not so. In comparing scripture with
scripture a person can find the truth. First look at John 4, Jesus
meets a woman at the well. In verse 4 - And he must needs go through
Samaria. Verse 5 - Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is
called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his
son Joseph. Verse 6 - Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore,
being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was
about the sixth hour. Verse 7 – There cometh a woman of Samaria to
draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. Verse 8 -
(For
his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Verse 9 -
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being
a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews
have no dealings with the Samaritans. Verse 10 - Jesus answered and
said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that
saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him,and
he would have given thee living water. Verse 11 - The woman saith
unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep:
from whence then hast thou that living water? Verse 12 -
Art thou
greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank
thereof himself, and his children,and his cattle? Verse 13 - Jesus
answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall
thirst again: Verse 14 - But whosoever drinketh of the water that I
shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give
him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting
life. Verse 15 - The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water,
that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Verse 16 -
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. Verse 17 -
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her,
Thou hast well said, I have no husband: Verse 18 - For thou hast had
five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. He states she hast had five husbands, preachers
today would say she still has five, and the one she now has is not
her husband. If you are foolish enough to believe
they were living together without coming together sexually then you
don’t know human nature or you are just trying to prove your stupid
doctrine.
Lot came together with his daughters,
Genesis 19:30-33 “And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the
mountain, and his two daughters with him; for hefeared to dwell in
Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.And the
firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not
a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the
earth: Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with
him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their
father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay
with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when
she arose.” but they were never called his wives. In
I Corinthians there is a man coming together with his Father’s wife,
I Corinthians 5:1-5 “It is reported commonly that there is
fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as
named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath
done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I verily, as
absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as
though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
In the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my
spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an
one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may
be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.” they are never called
husband and wife. Tamar is never called Judah’s wife
even though they came together sexually. Gen. 38:11 Then said Judah
to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house,
till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die
also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's
house.12 And in process of time the daughter of
Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto
his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the
Adullamite.13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in
law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and
covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open
place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was
grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot;
because she had covered her face.16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I
pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was
his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that
thou mayest come in unto me?17 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And
she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she
said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine
hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by
him.19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from
her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the
Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he
found her not.21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is
the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There
was no harlot in this place.22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her;
and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this
place.23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be
shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it
was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the
harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah
said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in
law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she
said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and
bracelets, and staff.26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been
more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son.
And he knew her again no more. By comparing the above scriptures it
is plain that it takes more than a sexual act to constitute a
marriage. Ronnie Simpson said what constitutes a
marriage is leaving, cleaving and coming together. I know a couple
who have shacked up for fifteen years. They have left, cleaved and
came together, have two children but are not married. So another
heresy bites the dust. According to the scriptures it
takes three things to constitute a Marriage. They are: 1. consent or
covenant between two parties, 2. A public confession or statement
either written or oral 3. The coming together in a sexual act. In
order to show this I will use the following chart:
The Marriage
Covenant
Public Confession
Coming together
(Malachi 2:14)
1. Adam and Eve
Genesis 2:23
Genesis 2:23, 3:20
Genesis 2:24
2. Ruth and Boaz
Ruth 3:9-13, 4:9-11 Ruth 4:9-11
Ruth 4:13
3. Isaac and Rebekkah
Genesis 24
Genesis 24:58
Genesis 24:67
4. God and Israel
Exodus 19:8 Exodus 5:1
Ezekiel 16:8
(Through Moses before Pharaoh)
5. The Bride & Christ
John 3:16
Romans 10:9-10
Romans 12:4-5
I Cor. 12:12-13
Rev. 21:2-11
From the above you can see all three in each marriage. The Devil, in
order to cause confusion deceived preachers into legalizing shacking
up by these two doctrines of just coming together, or leaving
cleaving and coming together. Now the homosexual
crowd is confusing marriage even more by saying two people of the
same sex can be married. The definition solves this confusion.
Marriage - the act of uniting a man and a woman for life.
There is nothing like a KJV Bible to clear up confusion.
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