Mathew Chapter five continues…3

Mathew Chapter five continues…3
Bible brings forth the truth that human means ‘man and woman’. ‘Man’ alone doesn’t make the complete sense of human, it’s only the half. In the case of ‘woman’ also it’s true. The unity of both makes the sense ‘human being’. The perpetuation of human race is not possible without this unity. So God created human as male and female as in the case of any other living beings. Otherwise human exists as pair, male and female. That’s why scripture says, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh’. The relation of man with his wife, the process of man and woman become one flesh, is sexual and it is spiritual. So as long as the spouse is faithful sexually divorce is not possible. Means, according to Jesus woman also has freedom, except the freedom we hear today - sexual freedom (man also doesn’t have that freedom). According to Bible man and woman cannot be considered as separate entities, but the opposite sides of the same coin. Without one side the other side is meaningless. So the bonding between the two is essential and it should not be broken in any ground except sexual immorality. Let us see the verses.
31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

If we want to know more we have to see the verses from Mark 10: 5-9. It says, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

We can also understand some other facts from these verses. One thing the only allowable sexual practice is heterosexual. Second, neither homosexual nor bisexual practice is considered as righteous but sinful. Once a person has joined with another one in marriage, and then that persons cannot think about another sexual relation. Otherwise, if a man/woman is not satisfied with his/her spouse sexually cannot lead a spiritual life and he/she cannot belong to the Kingdom of heaven or cannot be a disciple of Jesus. So in a marriage both are responsible to satisfy each other.