Marriage has meant one thing for thousands of years across every culture, every religion, and every civilization that ever built something worth preserving.

One man. One woman. A covenant that produces children, stabilizes communities, and reflects something God designed before governments existed.

Then in the span of about a decade the most powerful institutions in the Western world decided that definition was hateful and replaced it.

Not through persuasion. Not through honest debate. Through courts, corporations, and a cultural machine that made disagreement socially and professionally dangerous. You either celebrated the change or you became the enemy.

I did not celebrate it. I still do not.

Not because I hate anyone. Because I believe God when He speaks. He defined marriage in Genesis. Jesus confirmed it in Matthew. Paul built the entire theology of Christ and the church around it in Ephesians. That is not a tradition men invented. That is a design God established.

What the Supreme Court does with that design does not change what God said about it. Courts do not have that kind of authority no matter how many votes they cast.

The word was redefined. The thing itself was not.

A covenant between a man and a woman under God is still what it has always been. And the version the culture replaced it with – regardless of what the law says – is not the same thing. Calling it the same name does not make it the same thing.

Words matter. God chose His carefully. So should we.

 

 

Stephon Rudd

 

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