13 Considerations Regarding a Marriage License

Why is a marriage license important? Isn't it just a piece of paper? Isn't the real issue whether the couple is committed to each other? After all, Adam & Eve had no document from the state, so why can't two people who love each other and are committed to each other consider themselves married and enjoy all the rights and privileges associated with marriage?

Further, doesn't Paul teach that the act of sex is what forges the marriage anyway?

1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."

So if a couple loves each other, is committed to each other, and has entered a living arrangement that includes bedroom privileges, are they not already married, "one flesh" biblically speaking?

Read Pastor Sam's 13 responses in the full article.