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If a marriage is not consummated, even for physical reasons, should that be grounds to annul it? All right. I don't know what the physical reasons might be, but I'm assuming what

you're saying is in terms of consummated for everybody who's listening in case somebody's not up

to speed. What Nate is asking is if two people get married, they actually have

the marriage ceremony, they sign a marriage covenant, they exchange vows, exchange rings, all those

things. They have gone through that process, but they don't consummate the marriage, meaning

they do not consummate the marriage through sexual intercourse. Is the marriage valid?

And biblically, I would say no, no. There are two primary components of marriage. One is covenant or

ceremony. The other is consummation. Covenant and consummation. What you have in hookup culture and these

kinds of things is you have a bunch of people wanting to consummate, but without covenant.

By design, by intent, that's precisely what men and sadly women often want, is they want

the consummation, but without the obligation, without the covenant,

without the responsibility, without being bound to one another in marriage.

And so, you know, you can have consummation without covenant.

You're not married.

You're not.

What you've done is fornicated. What you've done is sinful, but it is not marriage.

If you have sex with someone in the back of a car in the middle of the night in some dark alleyway,

you're not married to that person. You're in sin, most certainly, but you're not married to that

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