Where does your definition come from?
If you lived before the 1930, the word
“cool” had a
meaning related to temperature.
Tenor saxophonist, Lester Young popularized the word
“cool” to mean “fashionable” in jazz circles around
1933.
Beatnicks playing their bongos became the philosophers
in coffee shops with
their music, poetry and marijuana.
They transformed the word “cool” to its
slang meaning “great”
or “acceptable”.
Because of the varied and changing connotations
of the word “cool”
there is now no single meaning.
No one can define the word cool
without the context it is used in.
You step into a room
with the air-conditioning
on, you will say the room is cool.
In 2015, America changed
the definition of “marriage”.
Before that some states changed the definition.
It used to be in America marriage was a legal
binding agreement between a man and a woman.
Today this legal binding agreement includes same sex.
Many believe the definition will continue to change
to include polygamy, zoophilia, pedophilia even objects.
Why? Because society
has said people should be
allowed to be free to
united to what they love.
And the claims that a person is born with certain
desires should be free to live out those desires.
No one should believe that civil marriage
and biblical marriage are the same.
They have two different foundations.
The civil marriage is based on human view points.
The biblical marriage is based
on the Divine view point.
Like the word “cool” marriage
can only be defined in its context.
The context that defines marriage from a Divine
view point can only be found in God’s Word, the Bible.
It should be noted that God’s Word not only defines
marriage but reveals the hardships of alternate definitions.
So where does your definition of marriage come from?
Scripture Reading
Genesis 2:19-25 NIV
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. 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. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of
the air and all the beasts of the field.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord
God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he
took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord
God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her
to the man.
23 The man said,
"This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of
man."
24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother
and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no
shame.
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