When I hear the words “[an actor] says,” I reach for my revolver
Brad Pitt says, “I’ll Marry When Everyone Can.”
Are Hollywood types stupid or evil, that is the question.
There is no need to waste many words unpacking his statement.
- Everyone already can marry anyone else, subject to constraints such as parental approval, age, physical capability, and so forth, unless one redefines what marriage is; in which case, I wonder if Brad has considered all the possibilities, absent an objective standard, that that would open up.
- If an injustice is being done somewhere by someone, why should Brad’s female consort, and his bastard children, have to suffer because of it?
He might just as well have said, “I’m going to continue to batter my girlfriend until a man marries a moose.”
Are non-Christian marriages legitimate? Are pagans married in lets say the universalism church or the Judaics married in their synagogue of Satan, or perhaps two God hating Pan worshipers in some openly Satanic cult legitimately married? Although the religion of the state may recognize it as such does God accept and recognize a “marriage” made in the denial and hatred of Him, with vows made unto satanic gods, and an entire conception of “marriage” that it in defiance of the true and living God?
Comment by josh — September 15, 2006 @ 12:33 pm
Josh– Even so, all those marriages are in principle legitimate. This is because the marriage covenant was established between Adam and Eve before the fall, and it thereby became an archetype for all of humanity.
At the other end of Scripture, a good way to see this confirmed is I Cor. 7:12-13, in which one spouse becomes a Christian. (It seems like a fair assumption that the situation being addressed by the apostle is not a Christian marrying an unbeliever then having “buyer’s remorse” and wondering if divorce is permitted.) Since the believing spouse is urged not to abandon the marriage, this implies that it is indeed a marriage, though entered into (originally) by two unbelievers.
Since marriage typifies the relation of Christ and the church (Eph. 5:32), it is properly both a civil and religious event when Christians marry. But the civil aspect is sufficient to establish it as a marriage. When pagans and demon-worshippers marry, the intended religious aspect is invalid, but the intended civil aspect remains.
Comment by Tim H — September 15, 2006 @ 6:35 pm