The Issue of Same-Sex Marriages

Here in America we are being barraged with the question of same-sex marriages.  As a Bible literalist there in truth can only be one view of this issue.  The following is a short point-of-view of this current theological question:

From the earliest sections of the Bible, Moses penned the importance of the one man to one woman pattern in any healthy relationship.  This is what God intended through the Creation of Man.  “And the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him” (KJV Gen 2:18).  Thus, it is through marriage that we, as humans, can find the true spiritual human bond, “And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed” (KJV Gen 2:21-25).

By following Adam and Eve’s example we can also see the truth that falls behind the idea that God never intended man to take more than one wife.  For whenever more than one wife was taken in Scripture, some form of strife ensued.  Such is the case with the Prophet Samuel’s mother Hannah who was continually provoked by her adversary, Penniah (1 Samuel 1:6-10).  Another such case comes from King Solomon, a man of great wisdom and stature in the Bible.  Yet, with over a 700 wives not including loving many strange woman (1 Kings 11:1) is it any wonder that his mental functions began to deteriorate? 

Thus it only makes perfect sense that when the Apostle Paul writes to his protégé Timothy regarding relationships and the duties of those future church leaders that he speaks frankly on the subject of the man/woman relationship.  Paul is clear that those serving as Deacons must either be in a one man to a one woman relationship (1 Timothy 3:12) or in some cases in no relationship at all.

My friends, biblically it is clear that there is a clear definition in marriage for there to be one man and one woman.  When we as human beings choose to deter from that truth then we are mistranslating Scripture…it is that simple.