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Does *revelation* provide a explicit/implicit answer to the question of *when* a marriage contract comes into being or is recognized as such by God?
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Dead Thread on 3rd attempt at asking question? I'll have to take my inquiries on this particular issue elsewhere.
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Latin Catholic,
Thanks for your reply. The theology of the body though interesting has no direct bearing on my question. I'm asking if God has revealed *when* marriage begins. That's the question. I strongly suspect the answer is no but I'm willing to be corrected.
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Neo-Ch:
Christ is Risen!! Indeed He is Risen!!
It's my understanding that Revelation is contained in the Deposit of Faith that the Holy Spirit continues to unfold for the Church, leading her into all Truth.
Marriage, as I was taught, begins when the spouses consummate it on their wedding night. I understand that this is one of the areas for which the Latin Church allows an annulment: the inability to complete the marriage.
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Yes, I thought that the theology of the body might not be quite what you were looking for.
I'm not sure about this, but it seems to me that marriage is such a fundamental human institution that it is probably part of the natural law. If so, I assume marriage becomes valid (and therefore in a sense recognized by God) by the free and mutual consent of husband and wife followed by the consummation of the marriage. But I think this is simply a matter of reason and natural law.
Marriage between the baptized, however, is raised by God to a sacrament. This is something which we can only know through divine revelation.
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Marriage between the baptized, however, is raised by God to a sacrament. Christ is Risen!! Indeed He is Risen!! I think there is where I was in a previous post on another thread. When we are "in Christ"--"in" His Mystical Body; part of Him by Baptism--everything is in a whole different light and perspective. BOB
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We do know, I think, from Genesis, i.e. from divine revelation, that marriage is an institution willed by the Creator. Therefore, it seems to me that marriage, even between non-Christians, is blessed by God. But again, only marriage between the baptized is a true sacrament.
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