Mawage

Front matter
Connections List
 * Wife Role
 * Gender
 * Family
 * Divorce
 * Adultery
 * Genesis 2
 * Man and Husband Role
 * Matthew 22
 * NT Salvation Imagery
 * Marriage illustrations
 * Relationship
 * Weltzin mawage talk
 * Love
 * Dating Protocol
 * Heaven
 * Sex
 * Wartime lifestyle
 * JC Husband
 * Woman
 * Eros
 * NathAndrea Marriage
 * Woman subjugation
 * Egalitarian issues
 * Marriage practical
 * Men vs. women

Scope
 * Marriage, also specifically in Church context
 * For illustrations or comparison see "marriage illustrations"

Topics
 * Theo basis
 * Theo mech current
 * Who to marry, should you marry?
 * Keep God first (theologically)
 * Proper behavior in marriage (see connection)
 * Divorce (see connection)
 * Marriage in heaven
 * Polygamy

Applies to all marriage
Theo basis
 * Gen 2 two become one flesh
 * Eph 5 image of christ and church. How literally is man-woman similar to Christ-church? Obviously man is not perfect. I would err on side of very similar.
 * By authority God > JC > Man > Woman (1 Cor 11)
 * Man is intermediary layer like priest between woman and God (until heaven)
 * Part of house theology
 * But 1 Cor 11 man is born of woman

Who to marry, should you marry?
 * Don't worry about who to marry too much. No marriage in heaven. Also all people are imperfect.
 * 1 Cor 7 Some like Paul may be gifted with singleness. Paul suggests, not under command but with good advice, not to marry due to "present crisis", also due to worried about how to please wife vs. JC. Essentially this is due to persecution and the military mindset. I feel ok if spouse is also military mindset.
 * 1 Cor 7:39 if husband dies may remarry, he must belong to the lord. 2 Cor 6 do not be yoked with unbelievers.
 * Master>mission>mate
 * Christian, calling, community, chemistry, cats

Keep God first
 * God is perfect, our rel with him is/will be perfect. Rel on earth is not. Is shadow. Take joy but is shadow.
 * We are gifts to each other from God. The only things good in us come from God. Thank God.
 * We are brought together because of mutual rel w/God. Mission for God.
 * Retain beliefs and standard Christian disciplines and behaviors.
 * Priorities: god>wife>children>christians>non. If children are in apostasy past age of accountability (?) then christians>non-JC children

Errata
Marriage in heaven
 * We will probs still remember people in heaven
 * Pre-fall God made man and woman. Not sure if they were married or had sex. It would make sense, depending on how much God planned for them to fall. They had no kids prior I think. General manifest was around prior fall due to fruit. Crops will also be post revelations. So why not marriage? Idk. But verses are fairly clear from Jesus. Also there will be no sun and no night, so some manifest goes away.
 * Matthew 22:23-33 no marriage in heaven, not marry or given - so possibly no new marraiges. But the case of 7 is more clear. We will be like the angels - unmarriaged I guess. Like shadow principle I think.
 * Luke 20:27-39 :: Matt 22. This is more dramatic (against marriage). "Those who are considered worhty of taking part in that age in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry not be given in marriage". Can't die b/c like angels.

Polygamy
 * In OT some
 * Jacob/Israel w/Rachel Lead and their 2 handmaidens
 * Lot (I think)
 * Solomon (political)
 * David (idk)
 * In many tribes
 * In Islam
 * In Mormonism
 * Possibly economically intelligent due to 9mo vs. rapid. Also men may die quicker in war and such.
 * Doesn't seem to be explicitly prohibited but due to elders implied husband of one wife. Also Gen 3 singular wife. Stuff like that. Seems monogamy is preferred. One JC one church.

Passages
(for verses on topics like divorce, dating, see those pages)
 * Matthew 19, one flesh do not separate, except for immorality, remarry is adultery, better to not marry, eunuch dispensations
 * 1 Corinthians 7 young couples not marry unless can't control, not deprive except mutual, unbelieving spouses remain, not marry b/c preoccupied
 * 1 Timothy 5:3-16 young widows should marry, virtuous old widows, who receives alms distributions?
 * Malachi 2:16 "I hate divorce" or "The man who hates and divorces his wife...does violence to the one he should protect...". Look into Hebrew though, esp v 14 more is being said I think.
 * Timothy and Titus husband of but one wife