Week 3A - Marriage Views

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

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¹⁹ Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

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²⁰ So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

But for Adam^[f] no suitable helper was found.

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Genesis 2:18-20

²⁴ That is why

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a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 2:24

Multiple Select

What does "a man leaves his father and mother" actually mean in the Hebrew text?

• Move out of the house and live seperately

• Choose to betray by will

• Change the ones you are loyal to

• Being financially independant

²⁴ That is why

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a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 2:24

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What does "and is united with his wife" actually mean in the Hebrew text?

• Insist on staying together without leaving each ohther

• Get married and obtain a certificate

• Stick together physically and mentally

• Closely tying the knot

²⁴ That is why

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a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 2:24

Multiple Select

What does "they become one flesh" actually mean in the Hebrew text?

• Cast one's lot with someone

• Build a community of shared life

• Dine together in all occassions

• They grow more like each other

Genesis 2:24

²⁴ That is why

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a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

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³ Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”

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⁴ “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’^[a]

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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’^[b]?

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⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Mathew 19:3-6

Multiple Choice

What do you think the above verse is saying?

• We can divorce.

• We should not divorce.

• We can divorce with a valid reason.

²¹ Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

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²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

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²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

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²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:21-24

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her by the washing with water through the word,

²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—

³⁰ for we are members of his body.

Ephesians 5:25-30

Multiple Select

From the above two passages(Ephesians 5:21-30), what is suggested?

• Wives, submit to your husbands out of reverance for Christ.

• Wives, submit to your husbands and husbands love her as your own body. Wives, submit to your husbands and husbands love her as your own body.

• Husbands, submit to your wives out of reverance for Christ.

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At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

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It's a union to relfect love for each other but it isn't for eternalty. ​

Mathew 22:30