True Marriage

Marriage, as God instituted it in the beginning of creation, is the union of one man and one woman. Therefore this fact must ever remain true of every age and clime: true marriage is one woman for one man. Some Africans have the idea that monogamy is a custom belonging to a particular race or people, and therefore, will not suit the African. But when God created Adam, He gave to him only one woman. God, being the Creator of the universe and Lord over all, could have created more than one woman out of Adam, if that were according to His plan in multiplying the human race, or if that were His will for mankind.

“And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

“And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept:

and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

“And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

“And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man” (Genesis 2:18, 21-23).

It was God who saw Adam’s need of a companion and helpmate, and it was He who supplied that need. We cannot do otherwise than believe these words of God and repose our full confidence in what God thought was best for Adam.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD” (Isaiah 55:8).