28/11/2025
"Holy matrimony happens in your parents' home, not in any church. Before you insult me, get Scripture and read it from cover to cover. If you see anywhere a marriage was conducted in a church or synagogue, return and collect $10,000 from me!
"Scriptural marriage involves a man and a woman, and if she is a virgin, then her father or guardian's consent must be sought and a bride price paid—Exodus 22:17.
"If she is not a virgin and the man still wants to marry her, then all he needs is her father's or guardian's consent. No bride price is necessary. But if she has been married before and widowed or divorced, only her consent is required. She just packs into your house and automatically becomes your wife—1 Samuel 25:42.
"There is no biblical account of priests, pastors, prophets, or apostles officiating at a wedding.
"Yeshua Himself did not perform any marriages or weddings. He was a guest at a wedding feast, not an officiating minister. And at the time He arrived at the feast, the wedding had already taken place.
"Now, there is also no such thing as a Registry Marriage. As the name implies, a Marriage Registry is a place where you go to register a marriage that has already occurred. The civil servant at the registry is not marrying you and your spouse. They are either recording your decision to marry or performing legally binding civil ceremonies, so that in future, you both can take advantage of the legal protections that the law affords married couples.
"One of the shortest verses in the Bible teaches us about how easy God made marriage. Genesis 24:67 says: "Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother, Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife."
"Look at that. Only one sentence, and it captured Isaac and Rebekah's marriage ceremony.
"The only reason some churches insist on a church wedding is to make money. That church is just a business, the same way a shopping mall is a business, and will try to convince you to buy what you do not need.
A church marriage is a European cultural marriage equivalent to your traditional marriage. It is not better or holier than anything you do in sub-Saharan Africa in the name of marriage.
Follow Scripture, not your pastor or his church dogma!" ~Reno Omokri says.
✍️Admin Lagos
