Essay on Christian Marriage

Many legal and financial advantages can be attained through marriage. Instead of getting married after high school, people tend to go to college, get their life together, and then marry. The average groom is now thirty-seven and bride thirty-four (Discuss). According to Associated Press Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, “41 percent of spouses admit to infidelity, either physical or emotional.” Couples these days aren’t communicating the proper way. Instead they get mad at each other and ignore one another. One or both people in the relationship have “checked out”, but they don’t want to divorce for the sake of the children. Or they still love each other, valuing each other as a support system and as close friends, but don’t feel that intimacy toward one another. As said in a marriage article from faqs.org, “The study, by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University, found that the marriage rate among Americans is at its lowest point ever. Over the last forty years, the rate has fallen forty-three percent. In addition, fewer people are reporting themselves as being “very happy” in their marriages.” Today, most wedding ceremonies involve a religious service, which contains many traditional features that are significant to their cultures. Christian’s services contain wording that has been unchanged since the

Catholicism is a monotheistic religion which believes in God and his unconditional love and sacrifice which was shown through the creation of his son, Jesus. Catholics believe that there is two ways which you can experience God. The first is through revelation which include things such as creation, scripture, people and Jesus. The other way in which Catholics may experience god is through sacraments(Catholic Rites Of Passage Powerpoint, 2016). The Roman Catholic Church has seven sacraments, one of those being marriage. Marriage is an important step in someone's life as it is symbolises a change in social status. Throughout the Bible there are numerous scriptures which symbolise the importance of marriage. For example For example Proverbs 18:22

Because the Lord values the relationship of a man and his wife, he also gives us instructions as to how husbands and wives are to treat each other through Paul’s teaching in Ephesians 5:21-33. The subject of Paul 's teaching in Ephesians 5:21-33 is that of submission in the context of marriage. Paul 's instructions here create a clash with the beliefs and practices of our culture today. However, a closer study of what God really intended sheds much light on what is really being taught in this hard saying of Paul. Paul is talking about the different roles the both the husband and wife has with each other in relationship with their relationship with Christ.

Marriage is a significant part of Judaism bringing together a woman and man under God’s reign. It is the mitzvah (122) “To marry a wife by means of ketubah and keddushin” (Deut 22:13), all Jewish adherents see marriage as a necessity in order to obey God and to experience the fullness of life. In Genesis God says: “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” It is a link between individuals and the wider community as it recognises two individuals coming together, celebrated by the wider community. Also the marriage ceremony itself contains symbolic significance to Judaism, conveying Jewish beliefs through symbols, actions and words.

With the mystical unions in both Christianity and Judaism, there are many similarities. One of these similarities is the celebration of a wedding. In the Christian tradition, the wedding is between Christ and his people. When a person gets ready to take communion, they wear their Sunday best and they have prepared themselves to receive the Lord and be united with Him. In the Jewish tradition, the wedding that is being celebrated is that of the Shekinah and the Tiferet. This union brings the cosmos and the Sefirot in balance, which causes a rejoicing because God becomes one. This is done by the lower worlds are reunited with the upper worlds, which allows God graces to shine down. This wedding also returns the Jews to their homeland and return the Shekinah from exile (Sherwin). The wedding is a big aspect in both Christianity and Judaism.

The striking Christian concept of marriage theology, in which God is understood as having an allegorical and spiritual marriage with His people, showed both great change and great constancy in the face of the challenges of the Protestant Reformation. Some concepts, such as the importance of unity in conceptualizing mystical marriage, were constant characteristics of marriage theology, although varying in emphasis. Other concepts, such as mystical marriage as sacramental, were distinctly Catholic and rejected by later Protestants. By comparing the ideas of Bernard of Clairvaux and Gertrude of Helfta, monastic theologians preceding the Reformation, with the ideas of Francis Rous and Cotton Mather, Puritan theologians following the Reformation, the impact of early Protestant concerns on marriage theology will be observed.

"Wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior."

Marriage is an important part of the Christian life a the purpose of Christian marriage is faithfulness to one another, many Christians teach than within marriage there is a natural hierarchy that reflects the relationship of Christ and the church. The Roman Catholic Church says “wives, in the same way be submissive to your husband… Husband, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect” (1 peter 3:1, 7). Whereas the Church of England argues that the relationship is based upon Christ’s headship over the church and is about love and sacrifice, not domination and power. This argument originally started as the bible said “a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and they will become one flesh” (genesis 2:24). On the other hand, in the Islamic faith marriage is only a way to make sex and having children legal and lawful, the belief also states in the eyes of Allah both members of the relationship are treated equally even though they have separate duties.

In this discussion, Dr. Lewis talks about how Christian marriage is a spiritual connection where two people become one and form a permanent arrangement for life. In modern marriages, though, the author says, people make adjustments in partners when they are no longer in love. This is mainly for the reason that people get married because they share feelings of being in love, which are rarely permanent. Nonetheless, some Christians

The marriage ceremony is a significant practice of Christianity that entails the bringing together of Christian adherents: the bride, groom and the wider Christian family to witness the love of God.

Paul also teaches that wives should submit to their husbands and husbands submit to the Lord.

What is the definition of marriage? Over the years, the word marriage has been challenged from its current definition as listed in Merriam-Webster 's Dictionary as an act of marrying or being married between a man and a woman. Marriage can also be defined in the Oxford Dictionary as the formal union of a man and a woman, typically recognized by law, by which they become husband and wife. The word marriage becomes a special type of bond between two people that share the same desire to become the other person’s life partner. Marriage can be challenging between two people based on their current government state laws, in their religious and cultural beliefs as well as challenging to the word to be defined

Marriage is the unification between a man and a woman, instituted and ordained by God, for the lifelong relationship between one man as husband and one woman as a wife. This is what the ritual of marriage means in Christian churches. Many people choose not to marry in the Christian church due to the strict format you have to follow. However, based on my ethnographic results and research, there are wide ranges of options where marriages in Catholic and Anglican religions can be adapted to, however; it is directed by their Church authorities to a certain degree.

Many Christians refer to marriage as “Holy Matrimony.” This term is still used today but the truth of the meaning is not. There are three persons who make up the term, “Holy Matrimony;” God, Man, and Woman. Many Christians believe that marriage is a spiritual relationship that begins and ends with God. Therefore, it is a form of communion. (Martin, G. 2006, p. 97). Three or more people make up communion and without it, you can have no community. I believe communion is the breaking of the bread, symbolizing the body of Jesus Christ and the wine symbolizes the blood of Jesus Christ. Every Christian know this as “The Last Supper.” God is taken away from the institution of marriage, as well as all life, during the philosophical movement of the 18th Century. Once God is completely cut out of the foundation of marriage, then the only thing that is left is a binding contract between two individuals. What meaning does it have without the foundation of God? Christians view it as there is no meaning without God. It is a part of life to a non-believer, meaning one grows up, gets married, has children and then dies. Without God’s sovereignty providing the necessary community, the only

My first point is that the marriage must be between a man and a woman. In the Bible in Genesis 2:24 it says, “Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.” It says this because it is referring to a man leaving his family and a woman leaving hers to join and create their own. A bond, I say this because it is not referred to as a marriage, between a man and a man or a woman and a woman can not create a family. The purpose of a family is to procreate and they can not do that. Also, we, as Catholics, take the Sacrament of Matrimony very serious and we