The world today is redefining the concept of marriage as we have known it. More and more countries accept marriage between same-sex couples. And other types of unions such as child marriage, trial marriage, polygamy, endogamy, levirate, transsexual and even zoophilic unions are increasingly legal. With the increase in the number of divorces the very concept of traditional marriage has also changed. While civil laws in almost all countries allow divorce, even without mutual consent, churches have also adapted and perform new weddings for divorced people without even finding out the reasons for their divorces.
Thus, new and increasingly diverse family forms have proliferated and they are increasing. What was established by God is being left aside even in the vast majority of Christian churches. We would say very close to its entirety. This assures us of the fulfillment of Luke 18:8: “But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” Will the concepts of marriage and family as established by our Savior Jesus Christ in the Gospels completely disappear? At the rate we are going we can say that at least it will almost disappear. Only a small group of faithful, a tiny remnant, will uphold these principles. We wish with all our hearts to remain part of that residue and we invite our kind readers to decide the same. We will stand by what is established line by line and against all opposition and even persecution.
1. Single man with woman: Marriage is the basis of the human race and was established at creation between a man and a woman: Genesis 2:24: Matthew 19:4-6 2. Between widowed men or women with singles: Romans 7:2-3 Widowhood is the only way that the Bible presents for the human being, whether man or woman, to have the option of entering into a second marriage. There is no restriction for a widower to marry a bachelor. 3. Among widowers: Romans 7:2-3 Two widowed people of different sex are not restricted from marrying each other according to the Bible.
1. Divorced woman or man with singles: Mark 10:9; Luke 16:18; Matthew 5:32 and 19:9; Romans 7:1-3 Unions between singles and divorced people are clearly prohibited by God. Seven times Jesus said it and the apostle Paul also defined it. These unions establish ADULTERY and must be undone. 2. Between widowers and divorced people: Matthew 5:32 A divorced person who marries either a single person or a widower establishes a relationship of ADULTERY, causing the person he marries to commit adultery. Exodus 20:14 establishes NOT ADULTERATION as one of the 10 commandments, therefore these unions are a direct violation of God's moral law. 1 Corinthians 6:9 states that adulterers will not inherit the Kingdom of God. Unless, as in the case of any other sin, they repent and turn away from evil. 3. People of the same sex: Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13; Deuteronomy 23:17; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9 God clearly states that same-sex unions are abominable before Him and must be ended. 4. Between close relatives: Leviticus 18:6-20 God establishes a precise list of relationships between relatives that are abominable before Him. 5. A man or a woman with more than one partner, that is, polygamous marriages. The biblical definition of marriage in Matthew 19:6 excludes polygamy. Marriage is between a man and a woman. God had a tolerance for polygamy in the old testament. But when the Messiah came and the Holy Spirit was poured out, God in his infinite wisdom considered it time to reestablish the original marriage as it was conceived at creation. See Genesis 2:24. 6. Any other form of marriage that, although legalized by civil authorities, does not fit into the biblical definition of marriage.
In this framework in which God establishes in an exact and precise way what legitimate marriage is, the marriages that must be ended are those that God prohibited because they establish a form of FORNICATION or IMMORALITY by being illegitimate before God. This expression “except for the cause of fornication” describes those unions that, although the world legalizes before God, are not marriages. An example of this principle was the preaching of John the Baptist to Herod who had remarried his brother Philip's wife, after divorces as was customary in Roman law. "And John said to Herod: "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife" (Mark 6:18). Also in a very chivalrous way Christ said to the Samaritan woman: "For you have had five husbands, and the The one you now have is not your husband" (John 4:18). Although society called them husbands and they had established marriages before society, those unions before God were not legitimate. Understood in their immediate contexts, these two passages that mention the clause of exception (Matthew 5:32 and 19:9) emphasize the sanctity and indissoluble permanence of legitimate marriage in contrast to every possible union prohibited by God which must end or divorce. That is the only way to understand this expression (“a not by fornication") does not contradict the rest of the Holy Scriptures nor does it make God see as changing with respect to his laws and principles. This expression has been translated in that sense in the God Speaks Today version: "I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except in the case of an illegal union, and marries another, he commits adultery.” – Matthew 19:9 This clause was said by the Lord foreseeing all these aberrations to legitimate marriage and as a way out through divorce if they are married under human laws or a separation when they are only de facto unions. CONCUBINAGE: 1 Corinthians 6:18; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; 1 Corinthians 6:9; Ephesians 5-6 Concubinage is not marriage, it does not receive God's blessing and enters the list of illicit relationships that must end because they establish FORNICATION. The exception clause of Matthew 5:32 and 19:9 also applies to these relationships. In fact in both verses Jesus mentioned the two words adultery and fornication. He repeated what was said in Mark 10:9 and Luke 16:18 with marked emphasis: That those who divorce and marry without their spouse having died are ADULTERS. And I add that any relationship that forms FORNICATION must end (divorce). Getting married comes from the Greek word gavmo “gamos,” which means legitimate union, union under a law or vows that imply irrevocable and unconditional commitments between a man and a woman. On the contrary, the word pallakeuw “pallakevo” means “living in concubinage” or “illegitimate union”, which is a union that separates people from responsibilities.