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Friday, July 9, 2010
I chanced upon the following blogpost:
Recently Newsweek published a
series of articles debating whether marriage was still desirable (let alone necessary), coming to an unsubtle conclusion that it was not.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer would say otherwise:
Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and
power, for it is God’s holy ordinance, through which He wills to perpetuate the
human race till the end of time. In your love you see only your two selves in
the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations, which
God causes to come and to pass away to His glory, and calls into His
kingdom.
In your love you see only the heaven of your own happiness, but in marriage
you are placed at a post of responsibility towards the world and mankind. Your
love is your own private possession, but marriage is more that something
personal – it is a status, an office. Just as it is the crown, and not merely
the will to rule, that makes the king, so it is marriage, and not merely your
love for each other, that joins you together in the sight of God and man.
As you first gave the ring to one another and have now received it a second
time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from
above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity the
rights, and the promise of marriage above the sanctity, the rights, and the
promise of love. It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now
on, the marriage that sustains your love.
I have thought about it, and I don't think there's any way to defend the necessity of marriage from a secular point of view. I would say it offers increased assurance of the depth of commitment of both parties but nowadays that doesn't seem to be true anymore. You may certainly deem a marriage desirable for many reasons, but from a secular point of view, I don't think that you can argue marriage is a necessary institution (whether marriage is a right is a whole different question...). But then again I have a biased point of view that is not even entirely clear what the current secular definition of marriage is.
Posted by denise at
7/05/2010 04:58:00 PM ----
A reminder to self.
I guess I allowed my thinking to be influenced, almost accepting the worldly point of view.
I'd forgotten what God had to say about marriage.
:D
Please take over, Lord.
Then i won't forget, won't be shaken.
Won't need to have a spiritual high every camp, cuz i'll always be in you anyway.
PS CHIA WE NEED TO TALK! :D
Marriage
♥
Friday, July 9, 2010
I chanced upon the following blogpost:
Recently Newsweek published a
series of articles debating whether marriage was still desirable (let alone necessary), coming to an unsubtle conclusion that it was not.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer would say otherwise:
Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and
power, for it is God’s holy ordinance, through which He wills to perpetuate the
human race till the end of time. In your love you see only your two selves in
the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations, which
God causes to come and to pass away to His glory, and calls into His
kingdom.
In your love you see only the heaven of your own happiness, but in marriage
you are placed at a post of responsibility towards the world and mankind. Your
love is your own private possession, but marriage is more that something
personal – it is a status, an office. Just as it is the crown, and not merely
the will to rule, that makes the king, so it is marriage, and not merely your
love for each other, that joins you together in the sight of God and man.
As you first gave the ring to one another and have now received it a second
time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from
above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity the
rights, and the promise of marriage above the sanctity, the rights, and the
promise of love. It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now
on, the marriage that sustains your love.
I have thought about it, and I don't think there's any way to defend the necessity of marriage from a secular point of view. I would say it offers increased assurance of the depth of commitment of both parties but nowadays that doesn't seem to be true anymore. You may certainly deem a marriage desirable for many reasons, but from a secular point of view, I don't think that you can argue marriage is a necessary institution (whether marriage is a right is a whole different question...). But then again I have a biased point of view that is not even entirely clear what the current secular definition of marriage is.
Posted by denise at
7/05/2010 04:58:00 PM ----
A reminder to self.
I guess I allowed my thinking to be influenced, almost accepting the worldly point of view.
I'd forgotten what God had to say about marriage.
:D
Please take over, Lord.
Then i won't forget, won't be shaken.
Won't need to have a spiritual high every camp, cuz i'll always be in you anyway.
PS CHIA WE NEED TO TALK! :D
