The Importance Of Community Marriage

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“To love another is to see the face of God” mesmerized me when it was said in class, because it epitomizes the idea that God is love and Gods commandment to love another as one loves one’s self. This is important because, it allows us as human beings to take care of our loved ones and everyone in our community. Since marriage is tremendously interrelated with the spouses’ community and since each community seeks to integrate love, happiness and the wellbeing of the community marriage is the most effective means of achieving all of these goals. Marriage allows us to achieve these goals, because it helps us overcome self-absorption, since it requires each spouse to think of their significant other before themselves. Through marriage, which is a covenant in which two individuals promise to be with one another for the rest of their lives before the eyes of God and before the eyes of their communities. In marriage a person gives himself or herself to …show more content…

Especially in “ The New Testament Moral Teaching on Marriage.” For example when Jesus is asked ”is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” he answered, “Have you not read that he (the Creator) who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and (the Creator) said “ for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one?” so they are no longer two but one. What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder.” This is important because it explains how by marrying someone we make a connection with God, and he will make the two become one so they live together as they promised in the covenant of marriage. This exemplifies why a marriage becomes indissoluble after its consummation, because the unique connection that two spouses share during sex makes them one and therefore inseparable, so after that the marriage becomes

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