Quote Originally Posted by xparte View Post
The Bible itself puts an especially high valuation on marriage. The material world was proclaimed good by God (Gen 1:31), and the marriage bed is particularly honourable (Heb 13:4). We glorify God not by denying our God-given sexual desires, like some in Paul’s day were teaching (1 Timothy 4:3), but by fulfilling those desires in honourable The sons of god seen that the daughters of men were and took them as what Partners this was after the apple tree apples and the people tree peoples the gay tree the rape tree tax tree Garden became the Den of eve,s or lilly,s Gnostic know how in the beginning angels wars in the garden was it gay angels then gay men homosexuality is a branch of the gnostic tree is it high or low ask a pagan his perversity sheath or sword those enchantments rubbing sticks or taking a handful of wife being gay is biblical being born is biological u cant tax lust so a licence is how its managed .who gave the Agnostics away in marriage .
In the Bible, marriage is a covenant relationship. Licenses weren't required AFAIK. The licensing of marriage was something instituted in 1500s by Roman Catholic organizations to knowledge. It may have existed in other ancient societies.