The Church of England and same sex marriage...

[princealbertofb]

Actually the bible doesn't say.

It is inferred that that is what marriage means. Starting with Adam cleaving to Eve.

It is inferred.

However it can also be inferred that Naomi and Ruth were 'married' - two women, deeply in love.

Johnathan and David can be inferred to have been married, after all....

Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that he was wearing, and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.” (1 Samuel 18:1-4)

Oh but no this doesn't mean they loved eachother - like that.

but then They hugged until David Exceeded. Exceeded in this particular passage means, to be blunt about it, got wood.

Doctrine, not the bible, has determined much on what the bible means. Doctrine is man's interpretation of the bible, which often has little to do with the bible and what it actually says.

Even so, it was written by humans, sometimes a long time after the events it records... So the word of God??? Human are so fallible.