The wedding ceremony is a picture of Jesus (the groom) and the church (His bride). Any ceremony that leaves out Jesus misses the original and most important point.
My family and I went to see a great play at the Sight and Sound Theater in Lancaster, PA last week called "In The Beginning." There was one part where there is a beautiful wedding ceremony with Adam and Eve in the garden with Jesus officiating. It became very clear what the original mean of marriage was by watching this Biblical truth acted out.
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Well, being the Bible-humper this person is, it's no wonder they would believe a PLAY. I mean, if you took them to see Harvey (another play), he/she would start believing in 8 foot tall invisible rabbits.
As for that play...Adam and Eve were getting married and Jesus was there? What? Weren't they in totally different time periods, millennia apart? Was this play supposed to be a satire?
Given that the Hammurabi Code which defines marriage laws is dated to around 1790bc,,, and that Adam and Eve (if they even existed)predated Jesus by many millenia..... I'd say that Jesus officiating at the wedding of Adam and Eve is fantasy at best,,, and since it's not even mentioned in Genesis,,, it's downright un-biblical. Of course, the average fundie would never let mere facts stand in the way of one of their 'proofs'.
"The wedding ceremony is a picture of Jesus (the groom) and the church (His bride)"
So, when I'm entering church...
@#1060995
I find the best way to enjoy church is to run through the doors, and then out again, then in, then out, then in, then out...
"There was one part where there is a beautiful wedding ceremony with Adam and Eve in the garden with Jesus officiating. "
Were they naked? Because if they weren't its biblically incorrect. And if they were it's satanic porn.
The wedding of Adam and Eve ?
Theater
Is that what fundies call nudie shows now ?
Technically, this should be one of the most Christian burlesque shows ever produced. But, I have a feeling they disappoint in that area.
Except that the "marriage" of Adam and Eve with Jesus officiating never took place. That was a silly Jack Chick-style invention of the playwright. It was originally a man-made, man-centered ritual. It was made a religious event by the Catholic Church. Under OT Jewish law, marriage is an act between the two people, not a church-sanctioned sacrament. While a rabbi may be present to offer blessings and oversee that things are properly done according to Talmudic laws, he "officiates" only in the legal sense in order to witness, register and certify to the state that the couple are married under civil law - a requirement neither necessary nor possible in Adam's day.
We're they naked? Cause if they weren't, its not Biblical truth :p
Always wondered that. Since people were origionally nude and sin made them ashamed of it, wouldn't it then be holy and pure to not be ashamed of being naked? Thus, it is the Christian thing to do to never wear clothes. There's Bible truth for you.
"This Biblical truth acted out" Funny, I don't remember seeing that part in Genesis.
It IS a man-made, man-centered ritual. Whether it's empty or not, though, is debatable, and largely dependent on who's doing the marrying.
OK, we,ve established what Adam and Eve wore, (or failed to wear). The burning question now is, what does the well-dressed Messiah wear to officiate at a nude wedding?
Now that you mention it ... I don't recall ever reading anything in the Bible about A&E having an actual wedding. Nor does the Bible record Jesus ever saying a word about homosexuality.
I must conclude, therefore, that shacking up with our sweeties, whatever plumbing system they may have, is just fine and dandy with God & Company.
There was one part where there is a beautiful wedding ceremony with Adam and Eve in the garden with Jesus officiating.
Forget about Jesus being a few years too early. Adam and Eve were the only humans (according to their bible) that was around.
Ouch!
Though John was on the 'shrooms when he wrote all this, we can't accuse Fundies of not knowing their mythology, when its us who don't know it.
Likewise, Catholic theology is that the couple marry each other, the priest just offers a blessing.
Of course, John goes off into dribbling shit with Jesus being a lamb, the Word, and a light. Sadly it seems the Fundie poster found a patch of the same 'shrooms.
Do you think they're proud of themselves that they recognize Jesus' 'bride' as a metaphor for the church? After all, they are regularly accused of not being able to grasp the concept of metaphor, and I'm sure 90% can neither spell nor understand the word metaphor.
I know Jesus was supposed to have existed as God, you know, before Mary went through nine months of swollen ankles, back pain, and weird cravings, but damn, doesn't the absence of a wedding for Adam and Eve in the bible say something? Namely, it never happened? And they wonder why we don't ever take anything they say, aside from possible death threats, seriously.
Now can you show me where in the bible that is found? No? Gee I wonder why.
You know fundie technically means fundamental, as in they stick to the fundamentals of the Christian religion. These people just have some batshit, Walmart, trailer park religion going on that has absolutely nothing to do with the bible.
What an unbiblical play. There is no record that Adam and Eve were every married. And as Jesus had not then been born, he could not have been there - at least not as a man with that name. He was of Mary's flesh, after all.
So no Biblical truth here, just invention and inaccuracy. I'll bet Adam and Eve were not even naked. The Bible clearly shows that they wore no clothes until after they had sinned.
All in all this is theologically blasphemous.
Sad that the scene of that play isn't true EVEN TO BIBLICAL STANDARDS. Yes, sorry guys but Jesus is supposed to be descendant to Adam and Eve(like all of us, on the other side), Genesis is supposed to be symbolic AND Adam and Eve were not married, at least, not "officiated".
Genisis makes no mention of the marriage of Adam and Eve, none. That means we are all bastards, every one of us, according to your beliefs.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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