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WEDDING OATH: THE UNNECESSARY RELIGIOUS IMPOSITION ON MEN

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Marital promises or vows have turned into a typical and famous component particularly among Christian relationships. These commitments or pledges are taken within the sight of the ministry and assembly to finish the entire solemnization of Blessed Marriage.

 

The eventual couple are constrained to rehash some formally acknowledged words as a vow. There are a few varieties in the phrasing of the promises yet there are ordinarily acknowledged strands that goes through. Is the marital promise essential or not? Where did it begin? Should consideration be paid to the phrasing of these Vows? Is it Scriptural or not?

 

Marriage: What's going on here?

 

Stritof (2021) characterized marriage as a conventional association and social and legitimate agreement between two people that joins their lives lawfully, financially and inwardly". This definition includes a constraint inside the setting of an African or Ghanaian marriage.

 

Marriage inside the Ghanaian or Akan setting is a conventional association that ties two people and their families joining their lives lawfully , financially and socially. Marriage is in this manner, seen as an extraordinary celebration among the Akans and is one cheerful event to view.

 

Marriage Pledge or Commitment?

 

Could be couple are made to rehash within the sight of the church and gathering a promise or Vow?

 

A commitment is a serious commitment or statement explicitly: one by which an individual is bound to a demonstration, administration, or condition (Merrian-Webster, 2022).

 

A commitment implies guarantees each accomplice in a couple make to the next during a wedding service (particularly in the congregation inside the Ghanaian setting) in view of Western Christian standards. Subsequently, promises are restricting and those taking them should be ready at all expense to keep.

 

A pledge then again is a serious normally formal calling upon God or a divine being to observe the reality of what one expresses or to observe that one earnestly plans to do what one says (Merrian-Webster, 2022).

 

Presently, inside the setting of how weddings are finished in Ghana, I can gather that, we rather have wedding or marriage pledges and not wedding or marriage promises; since there is a particular distinction, between a vow and a commitment. Though a commitment is simply an individual commitment, a vow is a commitment made before some institutional power. In this way, in making a vow, an individual expects a commitment as well as becomes obligated to indictment; the state and society have an interest in his demonstration.

 

The pledges that are taken during weddings are not only a grave conventional calling upon God or a divine being to observe the reality of what one says in any case, likewise conjure a god to observe that one earnestly expects to do what one says.

 

In making these deductions for the pastorate, the congregation and those looking to wed to see the value in the gravity of the words they express on such events. The congregation's premises, the church and the assemblage portray the presence of God in this manner, the words that are expressed are no simple words except for a Promise where God is called upon to observe.

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