A specific question for W P - M / N

[daverain]

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I want to know of:


Wesly's Parish- Methodist / Nazarene doctrines:


My question involves marriage:



Q.)

Is it POSSIBLE for GOD to marry

a-man-and-a-woman

for

'their lives',


WITHOUT

a ceremony

or

a license




(This question is NOT to endorse sin IN ANY WAY.)

(I'm ONLY asking: Is it POSSIBLE, according to Specific: Wesly's Parish- Methodist / Nazarene doctrines)


Thank you,



Peace in Christ.



-daverain

[herev]

I do not know of any doctrine that would speak of what you are asking in the United Methodist Church.

[ClementofRome]

In the OT (and I suspect the NT times), marriage was the tent of consumation. There was dancing and eating and drinking and at dusk the tent of consummation. That WAS the marriage...no license certainly and little ceremony.

[desert_island_1]

In the OT (and I suspect the NT times), marriage was the tent of consumation. There was dancing and eating and drinking and at dusk the tent of consummation. That WAS the marriage...no license certainly and little ceremony.


Did licences even exist back then???

[ClementofRome]

Did licences even exist back then???

Not in the way that we know of them today. There certainly were all manner of legal contracts or covenants. I feel certain (without doing the research) that marriage did not fall into this category.

[sinner/SAVED]

Marriage is one of the sacraments of the church and can only be performed by one who has been ordained with authority to do so. Licensing is a matter of governmental law. Some type of ceremony would be necessary, but would probably be left to the judgement of the pastor. My wife and I were married by a United Methodist Pastor at the parsonage and the only witness was the pastors wife. I am pretty sure that a common law type marriage would not be recognized as legitimate by the church.