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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
i see you're getting your history straight from the good book. you might want to explain why pagan cultures like the sumerians also had marriage as a social institution even before any confirmed hebrew texts
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I'm not very familiar with Sumerian culture, though I am familiar with their pantheon of gods which, most of them, demanded sexual intercourse with a woman who is menstruating as worship, so I doubt their definition of marriage was well defined beyond the ability to have sex all the time.
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
And? The point is that they were around and performing marriages before there was any such thing as Christianity. So according to Christian tradition itself, marriage predates Christianity.
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No. This is a specific teaching, not the whole bible. The Torah was already written and kept in the temple of Jerusalem. Before then, it was an oral tradition kept to the letter since first revealed by God.