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But I could find no church which had been willing to do that.
I do not know of a single church which in our time has ever
confessed its teaching on major doctrines was in error and which
has corrected that error; nor one which has accepted NEW (to it)
truth. Yet that is one of the criteria of the one and only TRUE
Church of God. And there is only ONE such Church (I Cor. 12:12-13,
27; Rom. 12:5).
God has led His Church into the TRUE KNOWLEDGE and
UNDERSTANDING of the PURPOSE and MEANING of marriage. God has
revealed to His Church that marriage is actually a GOD-PLANE
relationship, bestowed on NO OTHER form of life created by God.
Animals do not have the blessing of marriage with HOME and FAMILY
RELATIONSHIP. Angels do not have it.
God's Church has the UNDERSTANDING that God is a FAMILY; that
man is formed in the shape and image of God; that he can be born
into the FAMILY of God, being changed by a resurrection from mortal
to immortal -- from human to divine -- from flesh-and-blood to
SPIRIT composition.
And when the CHURCH -- this Church -- is BORN of God at
Christ's coming and the resurrection, it will be the BRIDE of
Christ and become MARRIED to Christ. The Kingdom of God then will
be composed of God the FATHER, Christ the SON, and Christ's WIFE --
a FAMILY relationship.
No other church, as far as I know, has this wonderful
knowledge!
God's Law of Marriage
This Church also knows GOD's LAW of marriage, as mentioned in
Romans 7:1-3: "Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that
know the law,)...." Paul was speaking to them that "know the law."
The great group of many churches called "Christianity" reject God's
Law, and their people do not "know the law." Those of other
religions the world over do not ''know the law." Those of other
religions the world over do not "know the law."
Continue in Romans 7: "...how that the law hath dominion over
a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is
bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the
husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of the husband. So
then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man,
she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she
is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be
married to another man."
WHY did God give to HUMANS this God-plane relationship given
to NO OTHER creature? Because this life is the TRAINING GROUND for
our life in God's Kingdom -- to prepare us for that ETERNAL life.
We then shall enter a divine MARRIAGE to Christ. It shall be an
ETERNAL marriage -- never broken through eternity. God's LAW of
marriage was designed to impress us with the SACREDNESS and the