Marriage is God ordained and the only institution for the legitimate expression of sex. He condemns sex outside marriage.
God is the one who said that it is not good for man to be alone and instituted marriage and how it is to operate. Anyone who advocates against marriage goes against God’s design for humanity and family.
It’s the mechanism by which children are to be brought into the world and raised. (Malachi 2:13-16 And this second thing you do. You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God[g] seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Men are to love their wives as Christ loves the church and gave Himself for it, and women are to respect their husbands and obey them as Christ. Men are to protect, provide, and lead. Women are to submit and respect. Actually both are to submit to each other and not deny each other sex.
The big problem with marriage these days is that too many people are in it for themselves and their own personal benefit and what they can get out of it. That cannot and will not ever work. It’s selfish lust and not sacrificial love.
There’s plenty of blame to go around in who is at fault for a marriage gone south. It isn’t only women as some here would like us to believe as if men are perfect and can do no wrong.
Thank you, that is wonderful of you to say.