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Marriage is not the point
The Bible & Gender 6.0
by Eric Stillman 
May 27th, 2007

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A week and a half ago I had the privilege of being one of nine panelists at Manchester High representing Protestant Christianity in a discussion of world religions.  Among the other faiths represented were Catholicism, Baha’I, Rastafari, Islam, Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, and Mormonism.  After the seminar was over, the Mormon handed me a tract of theirs called “The Family:  A Proclamation to the World.”  Since I knew that I’d be doing a couple of sermons on marriage, I thought it would be interesting to read what they had to say.  Many of you may know that Mormons are well known for having strong family units and lower divorce rates than most other faiths.  One of the central Mormon beliefs is that marriage is eternal, that you can have your marriage sealed by the church so that families will be united forever.  Marriage is incredibly central to God’s plan in their eyes, so much so that young Mormons are encouraged to marry to another Mormon as soon as possible.  The fact that marriage is eternal and central to God’s plan is a big reason they discourage divorce so much.

Now, this is not going to be a series on how to have a happy marriage, or anything like that.  Instead, it’s going to be a continuation of the series I’ve been doing on the Bible and gender roles, so I’ll be looking more at whether God has ordained specific roles for men and women to play in marriage, and if so, why He has done that.  Having said that, let’s return to the Mormons and that tract for a second, because ironically it’s going to help us a great deal in understanding what God intended Christian marriage to be about.  Are the Mormons right?  Does the Bible teach that marriage is central to God’s plan?  And is marriage eternal?  Will I still be married to my wife Michele in heaven?  And if marriage is eternal, doesn’t that raise obvious questions of what happens when a couple gets divorced and remarried, or when there is death and remarriage?  If I’ve had two wives over the course of my life, will I be polygamous in heaven? 


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