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Marriages are contracted in God's eyes by the intention of the persons, not the choice of minister. The Scripture is that there is not one single passage that recommends, or gives any example of, anyone ever married by a third person in some kind of ceremony. They signed the contract and had sex, then they held a party. More specifically, Adam recognized Eve ("bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh") and later "knew his wife", and Jesus later says "it was not so in the beginning" in a context of, "if you want to understand how it's supposed to work, look at Adam and Eve".
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All I can say is, I agree with you about women not being pastors, Scripture clearly states that. So in my heart of hearts (and everyone is different), I personally would not have felt comfortable getting married by a woman pastor. I also do not know what Gods thoughts are on a J.O.P. marrying someone, I never ever thought about looking that one up in Scripture to see what God says about it.
But I do believe God brings each couple together, He has His choices and planned ones for each one of us, some just aren't patient enough to wait for Gods best and some are to young in their walk to understand fully, so they think the one they are marrying is the right one for them. Which this is why there are so many divorces today, many don't wait for Gods chosen one to come along.
I went over seas to marry the one God chose for me, got married by a priest but the ceremony was done in the family home. I really wanted a church wedding, but power goes out there all the time and the church didn't have a generator, the family had gotten one for at home while I was there so when power was out, we could still run fans to keep me cool. It gets hot there and I mind the heat terribly. But still I was extremely happy and satisfied, even though the wedding was not at church. I understood the circumstances and was just pleased and over joyed to be marrying the man of my dreams, Gods best for me, by a priest/minister, in Gods eyes. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Was the best experience I ever had.
Thing is, I have yet to legally change my name here, we are waiting on paperwork to come through for my husbands visa, so we thought it best since we filed the papers under my maiden name, I should wait until everything comes through to legally change it. So I don't know if the United States or the state I live in will accept the marriage certificate from over there as us being legally married. In Gods eyes and in my heart we are, and that is all that matters to me. But if here they say it is not legal, then we will have to go through the process to make it so here. Which I didn't know then, if going to the J.O.P. would be ok or not. So I am glad you asked this question and will look to see if anyone knows the answer to it. Since I am already married, I don't think it would be an issue to use a J.O.P. just to make it legal here in the states. But this is a joint decision between my husband and me, and what he strongly feels is right in Gods eyes, is what we will do.
But for me for the actual wedding, I don't think I could have felt comfortable getting married by a J.O.P. But as I said, everyone is different and it all depends on your gut feeling and convictions.
Hope you find the answers you are seeking, it was a good question and will keep checking back and will also see what I can find in Scripture. Sorry I couldn't be of any help.
God bless
But I do believe God brings each couple together, He has His choices and planned ones for each one of us, some just aren't patient enough to wait for Gods best and some are to young in their walk to understand fully, so they think the one they are marrying is the right one for them. Which this is why there are so many divorces today, many don't wait for Gods chosen one to come along.
I went over seas to marry the one God chose for me, got married by a priest but the ceremony was done in the family home. I really wanted a church wedding, but power goes out there all the time and the church didn't have a generator, the family had gotten one for at home while I was there so when power was out, we could still run fans to keep me cool. It gets hot there and I mind the heat terribly. But still I was extremely happy and satisfied, even though the wedding was not at church. I understood the circumstances and was just pleased and over joyed to be marrying the man of my dreams, Gods best for me, by a priest/minister, in Gods eyes. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Was the best experience I ever had.
Thing is, I have yet to legally change my name here, we are waiting on paperwork to come through for my husbands visa, so we thought it best since we filed the papers under my maiden name, I should wait until everything comes through to legally change it. So I don't know if the United States or the state I live in will accept the marriage certificate from over there as us being legally married. In Gods eyes and in my heart we are, and that is all that matters to me. But if here they say it is not legal, then we will have to go through the process to make it so here. Which I didn't know then, if going to the J.O.P. would be ok or not. So I am glad you asked this question and will look to see if anyone knows the answer to it. Since I am already married, I don't think it would be an issue to use a J.O.P. just to make it legal here in the states. But this is a joint decision between my husband and me, and what he strongly feels is right in Gods eyes, is what we will do.
But for me for the actual wedding, I don't think I could have felt comfortable getting married by a J.O.P. But as I said, everyone is different and it all depends on your gut feeling and convictions.
Hope you find the answers you are seeking, it was a good question and will keep checking back and will also see what I can find in Scripture. Sorry I couldn't be of any help.
God bless
J
Legally your married, spiritually your married (sex). GOD honors this. It doesn't matter who did the "we are gathered here together to join this man and woman in holy matrimony" The law of the land makes it legal. Besides, it isn't how you get married, it's how you work on your marriage in the end. If your faithful, loving, supporting, caring, and blessing each other.
I could be wrong on this but I'm pretty sure that once 2 people had sex they was "joined" in marriage. that if they had sex with more than one person it was adultery.
I could be wrong on this but I'm pretty sure that once 2 people had sex they was "joined" in marriage. that if they had sex with more than one person it was adultery.