APOSTOLIC TRADITION OF CHRISTIAN HOLY MATRIMONY IN THE EARLY CHURCH

APOSTOLIC TRADITION OF CHRISTIAN HOLY MATRIMONY IN THE EARLY CHURCH

Never mind the modern paganist rebellious rejection of Church Marriage and trendy falsification of Church history to the fallacy that Church Wedding is recent innovation. This is the biggest revisionist lie to be concocted by the present perverse generation. 

The goal of these lies and fabrications is demonically calculated to confuse the Church and revise Christian Marriage to make room for new legalizations to approve all kinds of freelance marriage abuses, sexual perversions and sexual promiscuity! Sadly, many Christians have unwittingly gulped in the tricky lie! The funny theologically naïve query of disingenuous demand for New Testament occasion of Church Wedding event is their most ignorant and ridiculous trump card, as if the New Testament is a book of programmes instead of a book of precepts. Soon they would claim that the Apostles did not have Church service, burial service, etc.

The factual truth is that Christian Marriage was practiced by the Apostles long before they wrote the New Taument Scriptures, in which the long-standing Christian Marriage practice was referred to as already ongoing Marriage IN THE LORD (1Cor 7:10, 39; Eph 5:22, 29). 

From the testimony of the 1st Century Apostolic Fathers like Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp of Smyrna and Clement of Rome, Marriage in the Lord was not only about Christian couples merely entering into ordinary marriages by the prevailing roles of family, synagogue and the State, but actually by the marriage being covenanted and solemnized among the Church with the Bishops/Presbyters counselling the couple, blessing the couple and praying for the couple, so as to witness to and vouch that such marriage is Christian and validly in the Lord – according to the teachings of Christ and His Apostles in the New Testament (1Cor 7:10-11). 

Clement of Rome wrote that he got this directive from the Apostles:  
“And with respect to the presbyters, take these instructions. Above all things, let them join the young betimes in marriage, anticipating the entanglements of youthful lusts.” 
(Epistle Of Clement To James Ch. vii, Early Church Fathers Vol. VIII). 

Also, Ignatius of Antioch while writing to Polycarp of Smyrna warned against the dangers of neglecting the Church authority in marriage matters which led to ruin: 
"But it becomes both men and women who marry, to form their union with the approval of the bishop, that their marriage may be according to the Lord, and not after their own lust. Let all things be done to the honour of God."
(The Epistle of Ignatius to Polycarp, Chapter v, Early Church Fathers Vol. I).

Never forget that Practical Christianity is a heavenly counter-culture which ceases to do all things NO LONGER AS GENTILES DO (Eph 4:17) but seeks to do all things AS IT IS DONE IN HEAVEN (Mat 6:10), and that Christ had denounced all hard-hearted perversions of marriage and taught that Christian Marriage must be as divinely instituted IN THE BEGINNING (Mat 19:8).

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