You have good questions. I am not sure that I completely understand what you are asking, but what Christ said i Matthew 19:3-9 :about marriage among the Jews of the Old Testament, which of course wasn’t a sacrament, may help speak to some of what you say:
Matthew, chapter 19 1 Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan; 2 and large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” 4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.” 7 They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” 8 He said to them, “For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity,[a] and marries another, commits adultery.”**
"…That is why we say that the indissolubility of the marriage bond flows from the natural law, even aside from any positive decree on the part of God.
It is based on the very nature of man as he is…"
can someone explain to me what it means, that part which I used in italics? what do they mean , “even aside from any positive decree on the part of God”… What does that mean?
If I’m taking that correctly, then how can it be “what God put together” ? Did God decree it or not? And what would it matter if something was torn asunder that God did not put together?
What exactly does it mean “what God put together”… if can’t mean the ceremony or sacrament of marriage, as their are annulments. It can’t mean love felt between two people, because a man can have several ‘loves’ before he marries. Is it the first person one naturally has sexual intercourse with? Then there are lots of people who are joined to someone while being married to someone else, which can’t be if two become one flesh as it is written.
So exactly what does it mean when Scripture says “What GOD joined together” ? How can we tell?
Not sure if I’m reading this correctly, but according to this article, it is the two people deciding and the presence of a priest in the sacrament of holy matrimony that* make
GOD joining them together? So two people coming together and deciding is God?*
