AntiChrist RZ 12/02 - Tomorrow's World
AntiChrist RZ 12/02 - Tomorrow's World
AntiChrist RZ 12/02 - Tomorrow's World
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The Ten Commandments<br />
declares the sacredness of human life, God gives this law to safeguard<br />
the highest earthly relationship. For marriage and the home<br />
are the basis of all decent society. The words of the command<br />
directly forbid adultery as violating the sacred rights of the marriage<br />
relation. Its spirit makes evident the fact that all unchaste conduct<br />
before marriage is a wrong done to the future marriage, and<br />
unfaithfulness before marriage is violating the command as much<br />
as adultery committed after marriage. The seventh commandment<br />
covers in principle all forms of illicit sex, including male and<br />
female homosexuality—now an enormous sin in the Western world.<br />
Marriage is in God’s sight such a precious, righteous, holy thing<br />
that it must not be defiled! The meaning of marriage and its great<br />
purpose in God’s plan needs desperately to be understood in this<br />
age of unhappy marriages and broken homes.<br />
The Purpose of Marriage<br />
It is impossible to understand the true meaning of marriage<br />
without first understanding that sex and marriage are God-given<br />
and God-ordained. To leave God out of the picture—as this modern<br />
age is doing—is to degrade the marriage union to mere animalism.<br />
Notice God’s purpose in creating man and woman! “And<br />
the LORD God said [after He had made only the man], ‘It is not<br />
good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable<br />
to him” (Genesis 2:18). God saw that a man was incomplete<br />
by himself, and so He decided to make a “helper” suitable for a<br />
man—one with whom a man could really share his life. So the<br />
first and primary purpose of marriage is to make man and woman<br />
complete. Each is incomplete without the other.<br />
Man alone was not able to fulfill the purpose for which God<br />
created him—was not able to learn the lessons of character that<br />
God intended—so God created the woman as a “helper” to the<br />
man and, in the very creation, showed that they were to dwell<br />
together as man and wife in one fleshly union—to share everything<br />
in this life, and so make their lives meaningful and complete<br />
(in a physical sense, at least). The second purpose of sex and marriage<br />
is the begettal and training of children. For God had told the<br />
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