Biblical perspectives of ungodly union/Marriage
Text
Rom 1:16-32
Aims
to expose some abominable unions in the Bible,
to expose revisionists’ ideology on marriage and
to study God’s injunctions and punishments on abominable doctrines.
Introduction
Ungodly marriage simply means marriage ordinance that runs contrary to God’s or biblical injunction. According to Study one this year, (The Universal concept of Marriage), marriage is universally accepted to be a relationship between man and woman or male and female or husband and wife. However, our contemporary society is filled with various revisionist ideologies. A revisionist is any advocate of doctrines, theories, or practices that depart from established authority or doctrine. Some of their doctrines are the LGBTQ: Lesbianism: marriage between two females; Gay: marriage between two males; Bisexual: sexually or romantically attracted to both men and women; Transgender: those who changed their natural gender to another form like male to female and female to male; Questioning or Queer: those who are in the process of determining their sexual orientation or gender identity. Other form of abominable union/marriage is bestiality: marriage relationship between human and animal. Our Bible passage today exposes us to the context of these abominable ideologies that run contrary to God’s marriage ordinance in the Bible and our study guide will beam more light to them.
Study guide
From the Introduction, define a revisionist and some of their ungodly concepts of marriage.
Critically study Rom 1:20-23, 25; Jude 1:10-11 and analyse the bases for revisionists’ doctrines as well as God’s Punishment on them. Compare with Lev 20:13; Rom 1:26, 28.
Mention some other abominable unions or relationships in the Bible and God’s injunction concerning them. Lev 18:22-24; De 27:21.
How should Christians respond to ungodly union?
Conclusion
There will always be revisionists who will always try to suppress the truth of God’s standard in the Bible. However, our joy as Christians is in the fact that over the ages, they had never prevailed over biblical truths. Therefore, we must always be cautious never to fall prey of their teachings; else, we plunge our Christian virtues in eternal damnation.
Food for thought
No amount of Revisionists’ ideologies had ever suppressed the truth in the Bible, and they can never.
Memory verse
Rom 1:18 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.”