CUBID, RAYMART L.

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BIBLE 3 /F (7:30-10)

MIDTERM EXAM

A. In the preparation for a marriage that honours and glorifies God, what are the 3 precautions
that need to be prayerfully considered before entering marriage?

The 3 precautions that need to be prayerfully considered before entering marriage are
as follows:
 First, a Christian should never, under any circumstances, marry an unsaved person. As
we all know that marriage is a Divine Institution where God design for us and it’s not a
human idea or Christian institution. The Scriptures forbids a believer in Christ to
consider marriage with an unbeliever. If the one person has received Jesus Christ as Lord
and Saviour, and the other has rejected Him, there is no common ground on which to
start a marriage. An Institution that is Divine needs a sacred relationship to God. When a
believing husband and wife institute God’s principles of marriage in the Bible, a solid,
healthy marriage results.
 Second, a Christian should not marry merely for sexual gratification. The marriages
that are based on sex alone are not happy marriages. Marriage was designed by God as
a picture of the covenant relationship He wants with us (2 Corinthians 11:2). If you want
to prepare yourself for a lasting and happy marriage, take a wholesome view of sex.
Keep yourself pure for your life-partner. Remember God will judge immoral and
adulterous person.
 Third, do not decode upon marriage as an escape from pressure. It is not good that a
person enter marriage in order to escape from their problems or anything that are not
cause by love. Today, it is happening because of some problem such as financial/money
problem. In this case, some of this kind relationship never last long. Beware of marrying
in haste, marriage is for life.
B. Give 1 purpose for the marriage relationship and explain its significance for the marriage
relationship?

 One of the purpose for the marriage relationship is “Marriage provides a new
partnership”. The marriage of a man and woman marks a new and exciting union, a
partnership for our stay on earth. Emotionally, spiritually, intellectually, financially and
in every other way, the couple is to become one. In this way, God-planned partnership
that both of them (man and woman) must have a mutual trust and respect between
both partners. Be honest with each other.

C. What are the diff. perils that affect the marriage relationship?

Different perils in the marriage relationship are as follows:

  The peril of adjustment- there can be no harmony in a marriage when two people will
not adjust to each other. This is especially when one person has a selfish and stubborn
personality. Adjustment in marriage takes time. The real answer to the problem of
adjustment is spiritual nature, Jesus Christ makes the difference. With His presence and
powers are felt, the problem of adjustment is solved.
 The peril of acceptance- do not set yourself to the impossible task of trying to change
your mate’s personality, you will never succeed in this. Accept what is given to you by
God because He has a plan for you.
 The peril of affluence- if you want a happy marriage, make up your minds that you are
going to live within your means. Money is the root evil. Money and things do not make
for happiness. Together we trusted God. Not once in all these years that God failed to
supply our needs.
 The peril of abortion- all of these passages teach us of the sovereign power and
purposes of God in conception and embryological development. Abortion is the removal
of a human fetus from the uterus prematurely, thereby destroying the life of the fetus.
Abortion is an intentionally ending the pregnancy. We Christians have no right to permit
the killing of the unborn children God has given to us.
D. How does divorce and annulment of marriage contribute to the breakdown of the marriage
relationship?
 God clearly explains His reasons for esteeming marriage so highly. He says it was He who
“made them one” (Malachi 2:15). Marriage was God’s idea. If He designed it, then He
gets to define it. Divorce and annulment is a serious crime that God hates it. Any
deviation from His design is abhorrent to Him. Marriage is not a contract it is a
covenant. Divorce destroys the whole concept of covenant that is so important to God.

E. How does same sex marriages and relationships contribute to the breakdown of the
marriage relationship instituted by God in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve?
 When the Bible mentions marriage, it is between a male and a female. The first mention
of marriage, Genesis 2:24, describes it as a man leaving his parents and being united to
his wife. Same sex marriage is perversion of the institution of marriage and an offense to
the God who created marriage.

F. What caused the breakdown and destruction of the beautiful and perfect marriage
relationship of Adam and Eve and how can it be worked-out or restored in today’s marriage
relationships?

 As the Bible describes the first marriage, it uses the word helper to identify Eve (Genesis
2:20). God created Eve to come alongside Adam as his “other half”, to be his aid and his
helper. The serpent, bypassing the leadership of the man, went straight to the woman,
who was by nature the follower (because he knew she would give him a better
audience), and enticed her to do the one thing God told her not to do: eat from the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil. She took the fruit, ate it, and gave it to her husband.
Here we see a role reversal. The woman usurped the leadership of the man, and he
became the follower. God’s design for marriage was twisted—and marriage has been
defiled ever since. And this causes the breakdown and destruction of the beautiful and
perfect marriage relationship of being disobedient and it can be restored if we follow
the rules in the Scripture.