What the Word of God Says About Traditional Marriage and Same Sex Marriage

This was originally motivated in 2012 with President Obama expressing his personal position in favor of gay marriage. This is an unapologetic defense of traditionalmarriage. In the election of 2012 many Christians tossed aside God's Word on this subject just to elect America’s first black president. When they had a chance to take a stand for truth and be a light that shined on the narrow path instead they chose to lead the country down the wide path that leads to destruction and for that they will be held accountable for their vote. They must repent and turn back to the Truth of God's Word.

In view of all the lies apostate churches, politicians and the media are spreading let's take a look at what God has to say about Traditional Marriage.

Genesis 2:18 The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

Genesis 2: 22Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man....

Genesis 2:24  For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Traditional marriage — one man and one woman — was God's first human institution. Even before civil government and the church.

Traditional marriage is a high priority to God.  Marriage vows should reflect God's pattern — “a MAN ... [and] his WIFE” (Gen. 2:24), not two men or two women!

Genesis 1:27-28a, KJV So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; MALE and FEMALE created he them. [28] And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be FRUITFUL, and MULTIPLY, and replenish the earth, and subdue it...

[NIV] “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth.”

Multiplication requires a man and a woman. “Male and female created He them.”  But He didn’t make them just any “male and female”. No, but rather “a man ... [and] his WIFE” (Gen. 2:24). Traditional marriage vows properly (and biblically) use expressions such as "man and woman orhusband and wife."

Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep your father’s commands & do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

God intends Dads and Moms to raise and train children in the ways of God. Can it be done without both a father a mother? Yes, — for example, Timothy’s Mom and grandmother (Acts 16:1; 2 Timothy 1:5). But it is done best by a believing Dad and Mom. Recent studies prove that the missing ingredients of either a Mom or Dad has lasting effects on children.

Isaiah 62:5 As a young man MARRIES a maiden, so will your sons marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.

Traditional marriage, a man marrying a woman, is aparallel to God and His people. Christ = Husband ... Church = Christ's called Bride.

Proverbs 18:22, KJV Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

A man finding and marrying a wife is a way of receiving theFAVOR of the LORD!  Genesis 24 contains the beautiful story of Rebekah being found for Isaac, by the Lord’s guidance of the servant.

1 Corinthians 7:1-2 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry. [2] But since there is so much IMMORALITY, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

Marriage of a man and a woman is an antidote to immorality, which is increasingly relevant in this immoral age. And note again that each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband [vs. 2] — this is a clear biblical stand for traditional marriage and against same sexmarriage.

1 Timothy 3:1-2, 12  Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife....

1 Timothy 3:12   A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.

Married elders, deacons = part of stable leadership in the church.

• Proven ability to maintain a relationship.

• Proven ability to show himself faithful.

• Proven ability to influence others for good, as evidenced in his own godly children.

1 Timothy 5:14, KJV I will therefore that the younger women MARRY, bear children, guide the house

This a positive encouragement [in context, to younger widows] to marry, bear children... Lacking a gift and call to celibacy, the prevailing pattern is traditional marriage — marry, bear children...Traditional marriage has served all nations and all cultures well since the Garden of Eden!

For those who say that Yeshua (Jesus) never spoke into this issue I submitt the following scripture:

Matthew 19:4-6 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ [5] and said, ‘For this reason a MAN will leave his father and mother and be united to his WIFE, and the two will become one flesh’? [6] So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what GOD has JOINED together, let man not separate.”

Jesus strongly endorsed traditional marriage — “a man...his wife.” Jesus said that God the CREATOR had established marriage. Jesus said that God established marriage for “a MAN ... [and] his WIFE.” And Jesus said that it is GOD Himself who JOINS the man and his wife in marriage. Gay marriage is a direct contradiction to Jesus' definition of marriage.

Therefore we Christians, we who believe the Bible, should be vigorously defending the sanctity of traditional Christian marriage between one man and one woman. We also need to take a stand when the leadership of this nation and the media attempts to cloud this issue. The truth of God’s Word has set this nation free in the past and it can again as long a Believers stand upon it and shine it’s light to dissipate the darkness of lies now blanketing the nation.