In contrast to that approach is what we would call the biblical view – and accordingly the traditional and historical view – and it is this: Marriage is not a human idea, it is a divine idea. Marriage is not something that is subject to evolutionary change; marriage is a creation that is as fundamental to the well-being of society, as the law of gravity and the law of thermodynamics is fundamental to the physical universe of which we are a part. This is true for one very good reason: God, from the beginning of creation, created male and female. The biblical view is that this is something that God ordained; that it is a fundamental principle for human society.

The biblical view is that like a physical law, if you embrace it, it does you good; if you abuse it, it will allow you to be harmed. So by the same token, the sociological laws that are ordained by God from the beginning of creation – these laws of marriage and family – are for our good, and if we abuse them, and we will be harmed by the abuse.

What’s your position? Do you embrace the biblical, historical and traditional view of marriage and family? Or do you subscribe to the contemporary view that it was only a human idea, it worked very well for a long time, but it doesn’t work for me so we’ll try something else? We will redefine the whole thing because we are going through an evolutionary process. You've got to find where you stand on this issue!

As far as the Scriptures are concerned, there’s an unequivocal statement: Marriage is a God idea. From the beginning of creation God created male and female.

The second proposition is this:

Sexuality (or gender) is divinely ordained.

Remember our text again, “From the beginning of creation God created male and female.” It’s very important that we notice this because it was all part of God’s plan. When we look at the language of Genesis that explains to us in this pictorial and dramatic language how God created things, we read that toward the end of His creative activity, in the initiation of our universe as we know it, He created something called “a man.” It was a male man.

Now this male man and God got along very well together. They had a good time. We are not told for how long, but it apparently worked very well. One day man happened to notice something, he had been put in paradise, but you will notice, he was put to work as well. Most people think paradise is a tropical island, sipping a cool drink under a swaying palm. No, paradise is being put to work in harmony with God. Now as he is going about his work, the man is given a very interesting job. He is given the job of noticing all the different animals and giving them names. While he was noticing the animals, he noticed some of the things that the animals were getting up to, and he’s introduced to gender. Then he looks at himself, and he says, “I think there’s something missing here.” So he has a word with God, and complains mildly about it, and God agrees with him and says, “It’s not good the situation you are in.”And so God made a woman, and everything changed immediately!