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people who say that are lying

no god sees fornication and sin when two people live together instead of getting married.

look at examples in the bible

jacob married leah and rachel he did not just move in with them

there was a marriage ceremony

Genesis 34:9

Arrange marriages with us: give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.

Genesis 34:12

Make the bride price and marriage gifts as large as you like, and I will pay whatever you tell me. Then let me marry the young woman.”

genesis chapter 29

20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

Marriage has evolved from the nomadic Ancient Near East. Speeding up to modern times, the divorce rate in Orange County, Ca, USA, is 70 percent. This is a county that is predominantly Christian. People get married all the time, in churches, and vow to God that they will be loyal to the end. However, this is not the case the majority of the time unfortunately. There were many times in history that people were married in secret and they spent their entire lives with each other. If you and your spouse make a promise to one another, under God, then you have to answer to Him. The social norm is to have an official ceremony and the reason why there are witnesses is due to accountability purposes. In the end, you know what’s in your heart. If you are right with God, that’s all that matters. As a theologian, I can tell you marriage has changed drastically within the Bible and historically through cultural progression. God bless!

People can live in love and commitment. But that doesn't become a marriage. From every aspect of religion..marriage is considered to be holy. Every occasions are to be purified through god and so it happens in every religions.

If not so..then what is the difference between us and animals. They find their mate and unite. God gave us brain and being super specialized mammals..things are to be taken from the brain too. Living together is living with the consequences that comes later in that persons life.

PS : God does see everything what we does. And he judges us through our way of living. (to everyone including..christians..JW's and every religions)

This is God for the rest of us. We are the whosoever's of this world. John 3:16 For GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD world that he gave his one and only SON, that WHOEVER believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Now Paul writes Corinthians 10:23 "Everything is permissible," but not everything is beneficial. I think asking an eternal God to bless a union is fine, you can even have an unofficial ceremony (or not) to celebrate being together and your openness and willing love and share in this life. In the eyes of your employer when it comes to benefits and some governments and insurances benefits that is where logistics lie sometimes. He/She has to name you as a beneficiary on official documents and that's a huge part of commitment, too. Especially, today, maybe even deciding to take on debts together such as a mortgage, car, medical, credit card debt. And then there is how you are viewed by family and close knit community. More importantly is how God sees you as HIS children. God is for us not against us. He is our perfect God for an imperfect people. Paul wrote in Romans that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Be committed to one another, enjoy and share in this life together but place God at the center of your relationship. Pray to Him and let the love that He continually has for us be a great joy and blessing to your relationship. God may not see the sacrament of marriage per se but He does see two people who is loves more than you or I can imagine. God SO love the World, He gave His only Son and He keeps giving to a world in need. Definitely pray about it.

you can't compare marriages then and now, in Biblical times, men took wives sometimes because it was determined by each family to provide wife for the male of another family, they were not always a matter of love but there was commitment because a dutiful daughter honored her parents and consummated a marriage she might not have wanted, but then if she didn't have a husband to take care of her she might also be out on the street if all her male family members died off

today simply being in love and a temporary period of commitment does not a marriage make

particularly legally, because unless a marriage has some legal basis the members of that family lose some

case in point, in m genealogy I have ancestors, one being a daughter who got pregnant out of wed lock with a soldier, the child was born into the family, accepted in the family but not having been borne of married father and mother at the time, he never was eligible for any inheritance, he lived all his life with the family, was always included in the family but he had no rights this was like in the early 1800's

and when it comes to determining what God sees, we do not know the mnd of God outside of what He has given us in Scripture, read your Bible

I think marriage is a social choice. More important are true love, respect and commitment. There are so many more grand issues than a legal document.

Marriage is a covenant made with God for Christians.

First off, Jehovah's Witnesses are NOT Christians. That's an entirely different religion altogether.

And, no, God does NOT see marriage. He sees two people sinning by having premarital sex. It's not a marriage until you say, "I do." That's the whole point of the marriage ceremony. If you are married by simply moving in to the same house with the other person, there would be no ceremony. You have to actually go through the marriage ceremony, and both of you have to say "I do," in order for it to be marriage.

Can anyone quote me some very specific biblically based verses that give an actual prescription to marriage? As far as I know as long as common law marriage is legal in your state, and you meet all the requirements, then you are married in the eyes of God because it is the law of the land. We are to obey the law according to God.

Some people will say that committing the marriage act means you are married according to their religious system. Few who say that live up to it by doing the paperwork as soon as possible.

No there's not anything Biblical about that. Marriage is marriage not living together in love. That's living in sin