Marriage-Its Origin and Purpose

"Jehovah God said:  'It is not good for the man to continue alone.  I am going to make a helper for him.'" -Genesis 2:18. 


IT IS normal for people to get married.  But how did marriage begin, and what is its purpose? Knowing that will help us to have the right view of marriage and its blessings.  God created the first man, Adam, and asked him to name the animals. Adam saw that all the animals had a mate, "but for man there was no helper as a compliment of him."  So God made Adam fall into a deep sleep and he took a rib from him and made a woman. Jehovah brought the woman to Adam, and she became his wife.  (Read Genesis 2:30-24.)  As we can see, marriage is a gift from Jehovah. 

Many years later, Jesus repeated what Jehovah had said in the garden of Eden:  "A man will leave his father and mother and will stick to his wife,  and the two will be one flesh."  (Matthew 19:4, 5)   Because God took a rib from Adam to created the first woman, the couple must have realized that they belonged together. Jehovah never wanted a husband and wife to divorce or to have more than one mate at the same time. 

Next time: Marriage-Its Origin and Purpose /MARRIAGE IS PART OF JEHOVAH'S PURPOSE

From The Watchtower magazine