Marriage, A Gift from God

Do animals also enjoy the gift of marriage or is the gift restricted to humans?

Lo Tov (Not Good)

1. Why do you think God did not create Eve at the same time as Adam, like He did for the animals?
2. Are those who remain single for life not fulfilling God's purpose?
3. Why did God have Adam name the animals? Is there any significance in Adam naming Eve?

A Companion for Adam

1. Was there any difference in Adam before the rib was removed and after?  Was the rib literal or symbolic or both?
2. What is it that attracts one male to a particular female more than to others?

Ideal Marriage

1. Why are so many marriages failing?  What are the most important factors that keep a couple together?  Is it Christianity?
2. If a spouse is not getting along with the parents-in-law, who comes first and why?
3. Why does the Bible have a poem on the ideal wife (Prov 31), and not for the ideal husband?

Protecting What's Precious

1. How important to a happy marriage is virginity at the time of the wedding? 
2. What was Jesus' attitude to adulterers, and to adultery?
3. What are the important factors in restoring a relationship marred by adultery?

Marriage as a Metaphor for the Church

1. In the Bible which is more serious, the unfaithfulness of a woman or that of a man? Why do you think this is so?
2. Does God expect us to love Him like we love a spouse?