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Marriage is an icon (image) of the relationship between Jesus and the Church. This is somewhat akin to the Old Testament prophets' use of marriage as an analogy to describe the relationship between God and Israel. Marriage is the simplest, most basic unity of the church: a congregation where "two or three are gathered together in Jesus' name."
The most debated issue is over the exception to the ban on divorce, which the KJV translates as "saving for the cause of fornication." The Koine Greek word in the exception is πορνείας /porneia, this has variously been translated to specifically mean adultery, to mean any form of marital immorality, or to a narrow definition of marriages already invalid by law.
The Indian Pentecostal Church of God the largest Pentecostal denomination in India has made its position clear that according to the 66 books of the Holy Bible, marriage must be between husband and wife and there must be no sexual union outside of marriage. The Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) similarly condemns homosexuality. [125]
Marriage in the Bible is important to both Judaism and Christianity: Christian views on marriage; Jewish views on marriage This page was last edited on 29 ...
Marriage does not necessarily involve love between the partners. Christian views on marriage involve love as being central to the marriage relationship, just as Christianity views love as central to human life and human relationship to God (as illustration, the statement from the New Testament that "God is love". [2]). The Christian expectation ...
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]