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Considering there are no weddings in the Old Testament when did it start?
In the bible a wedding consisted of a man and woman having sex and that would symbolize being attached together for eternity with the same person vs. today people walk down the aisle, exchange vows and rings. When did that form of weddings begin?
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- Way before that. You need to look at the Greek, Indian and chinese cilivizations.
- in the bible in the old testament marriage did not consist of just having sex in the OT it was a sacred event
- The first wedding was performed in the Garden of Eden. By God. It was God who brought them together as husband and wife; it was God who married them. It is not accurate to say that men and women got married just by having sex. If that were so, thousands of men and women were married to thousands of other men and women all at the same time. Sexual relations did not constitute a form of marriage ceremony. Genesis 38:15, 16 reports that Judah had sex with a woman he did not realize was his daughter-in-law (her husband, his son, had actually died). Obviously, Judah did not marry this woman by having sex with her and neither does the Bible report such a thing. David had sex with Bathsheba - it's called adultery. This did not constitute a marriage ceremony. Indeed, they did not get married until months later. So the Old Testament is full of weddings. They simply did not take the form with which people are now familiar. Hannah J Paul
- god "invented" weddings!
- Not sure. But it seems to have become more of a legalistic covenant bonded together in paper - and not by God's love and truth. How good are the promises of mankind? They couldn't even keep the 10 commandments. A true marriage is supposed to be a representation of Jesus Christ and His people. When God begins His reign, His people will finally see what a true marriage is really like. Those words, for better or worse and til death do we part will finally have real meaning.
- You need to watch that movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- When priests and lawyers found they could make momey that way..
- Hannah J is correct. The Bible mentions many marriages - that is, taking someone to wife in older English translations - and it is quite plain in several instances that sex by itself did not define marriage. Two glaring examples are the rapes of Dinah and Tamar. In the case of Dinah, the rapist afterward asked her father (Jacob) for her hand in marriage. In the case of Tamar, Tamar begged her rapist to ask King David for her hand in marriage (so that she would not be dishonored - not because she enjoyed it). Probably the most obvious example is Joseph and Mary, who were married before Jesus' birth, but whom The Bible says plainly had no intercourse before Jesus' birth. There are several marriage ceremonies mentioned in The Bible. The ones that come to my mind immediately are that found in Tobit and that found in the gospels. Tobit, in particular, describes some of the cultural practices involved in an ancient Jewish marriage. Aisles, of course, were not used in marriages before buildings with aisles were commonplace in those places (churches) where marriages took place. Historically, Christian churches were the first to possess aisles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisle#Architecture Exchanging vows - I couldn't find any reliable (or even unreliable) history of that custom. Exchanging rings - it seems that we (Westerners) adopted it from the Romans, but that it was used in ancient Egypt as well. http://www.atlantisring.com/History_of_Wedding_Rings.htm SO - the cultural practices surrounding modern weddings accumulated over centuries from various cultures - as is the case of most cultural practices surrounding any particular event. However, since you included "aisles" specifically, it does seem as if Christians were the first to "traditionalize" the wedding style that you describe. Jim, http://www.BibleChooser.com
