When the Pharisee's tested Jesus on the question of divorce, he replied (Matt. 19:4-6), "And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made[a] them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?[c] So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Those for gay marriage argue, passionately, that this verse spoke only about marriage and divorce, not about gay marriage/same marriage. sex marriage. Nevertheless, since same-sex relationships were prominent in the OT and NT times, if Jesus meant anything differently than this principle on marriage (between one man and one woman), I am sure, He was conscientious ans spiritual discerning enough to have addressed it at this time, and He didn't. :jesus:
raying: Thus Carter, like many American church goers, are wrong and unable to address the very words of the Lord! And this is why the Jesus spoke on the road to hell being wide and the path to heaven is narrow (Matthew 7:13-14)! I am not sure which road Carter of even Joel Osteen are on, but it sure appears that they are shoving folks towards the highway to hell with statements like this! :type:
Fully agree. Every Pharisee to which Jesus was speaking was (or should have been) very familiar with Genesis 2, His obvious reference, a passage absent of anything on divorce. To claim that Jesus intended no allusion to that Genesis account of the establishment of marriage is to willfully twist scripture to fit one's own lies.