GOD DEMONSTRATES
                                           THAT MARRIAGE
                                      IS NOT JUST A PIECE OF PAPER

Some, even Christians, say marriage, is Just a piece of paper. What does the Bible say? When is a sex act
fornication, or adultery, or the bed of marriage (Hebrews 13:4)?

Interestingly, homosexuals do not believe marriage is just a piece of paper. They are fighting to get that piece of paper in every state in the union. They recognize that there is something that comes with that paper.

                                
Ezekiel 16:8 shows us God's view of what makes a marriage:

When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; sol spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you and you became Mine, " says the LORD God.

Since He is the Creator of marriage, is not what He has to say critical in determining what marriage is? God said to Hebrews that the way He married Israel was by swearing an oath to the nation, and entering into a covenant with the nation. This is what the Old Covenant was to them. Christ has made a covenant with His bride the church, and this is the New Testament. Would you say that the Old Testament with Israel and the New Testament with the church are just pieces of paper?

The marriage license and certificate that we use today are the same. It says that two people have made an oath (vows) to one another and they have entered into a covenant to belong to one another, even as Israel became God's.

Don Rubl, 2521 Nile Street, Klamath Falls, OR 97603, adapted