We read that Adam and Methuselah lived so many centuries; at that time, it was the custom to marry in the family - marry as closely as possible - so that the tie of blood might be as strong as it could be made.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.