A given culture at a particular time and place does not have the right before God to say,

well, we're just going to live together and we're not going to have marriage.

There is no requirement that one be a Jew or a Christian in order to participate in the

sanctity of marriage.

It's built into creation.

Some people say, well, whatever God gave through Moses in the Old Testament doesn't apply

to us anymore, or whatever stipulations God gave through Jesus to His people in the New

Testament may apply to Christians, but they don't apply to non-Christians.

But any law that God instills in the covenant of creation extends as far as the creation

extends.

So that if God sanctifies marriage in creation, then the sanctity of marriage would apply

to all generations.

And a given culture at a particular time and place does not have the right before God

to dispense with the sanctity of marriage and say, well, we're just going to live together

and we're not going to have marriages anymore.

That's an old fashioned Puritan or Christian concept that's not binding on us.

One of the reasons, for example, why the church recognizes civil ceremonies of marriage

and does not restrict marriage to the church and grants that the state has the right to

regulate marriage is the conviction that marriage is not just given to human beings as Jews

or human beings as Christians, but it is given to human beings, that it is in the state

that God blesses and sanctifies for the entire human race.

And there is no requirement that one be a Jew or a Christian in order to participate in

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