Do most religions state that marriage is important, and if you dont marry it is considered as a sin?

Nihal: Do most religions state that marriage is important, and if you dont marry it is considered as a sin?
Is there any religion out there that states that if you don’t marry then you are a sinner? Which religion states marriage provides happiness?

Marriage provides children. Which religions state that marriage is important because we need children in this world?

Are there any religions against Civil Partnership?

Answers and Views:

Answer by gutbucket
Maybe mormons.

Answer by Mαθητης
According to the new testament of the bible you’re free to be single. See 1ºCor 7.

Answer by 6ofUs³
Weird. If marriages provide children … yet I am not married and I have 4 … what sense do you make?

Answer by Ridley
Christianity says marriage is a beautiful thing, provided by God, but is to be between a man and a woman. But no, not getting married is not a sin. It could be God’s will.

Answer by bookish
Marriage doesn’t provide children. Sex provides children. Marriage is a ceremony created by religions so that you can have sex without being considered a sinner. They want you to be fruitful and multiply. There’s only one way to do that, and they call it a sin.
Not all religions have the concept of sin, do they?

Answer by Conservative Christian
it means if you “mate” and aren’t married

Answer by Saad M
yes.

Answer by Kanna Hiriko
Many religions say that you have to be married to have children. Having sex before marriage is a sin. Thus the honey moon after the wedding. You’re supposed to be a virgin; pure, thus explains the white dresses woman wear when they get married and cream colored dresses when they get married a second time.

Answer by Jayone P
Not that I know of. Well firstly I don’t belong to any set religion, but I believe/study the Bible. Marriage is suppose to be a union of two people, equally yoked. On one accord in faith and love and if you choose to marry someone that doesn’t share your belief the Bible states you can’t condemn them and force belief on them to believe because that’s the way you met them. And you are only suppose to enter into a relationship like that if you can have peace with that person.(and that’s rare)(Book:Corinthians). Marriage provides children… not every woman can bare children. And a quick question.. What is a Civil Partnership?… I’m not joking! I really don’t know.

Answer by tmadhava m
there may be, but i am not sure. there are some that say for some followers of that religion, marriage is a sin – e.g. catholic priests, buddhist monks.

marriage does NOT provide children – it recognizes them and categorizes them into classes of membership of the community. The dichotomy between biological parentage and social acceptance of paternity is attested in many communities, e.g., the Toda of the Nilgiris (South India).

yes, most religions consider sex outside marriage as somehow sinful. but social justice is shaking off that old superstition. like our friend who has three children, though unmarried.

Answer by Star T
What does the bible say? The bible is God’s word therefore you should find the answer in it.
While highly esteeming marriage, the Bible certainly does not condemn singleness if it is freely chosen. The Bible recommends it as a desirable course for some. (1 Corinthians 7:7, 8) Jesus Christ said that some men and women deliberately choose a course of singleness. (Matthew 19:12) Why? Not because there is something inherently impure about marriage that would hinder their spiritual development. They choose this course simply to focus their efforts on doing God’s will in what they perceived to be urgent times.
God’s holy spirit was undoubtedly guiding Paul when he gave the counsel in I corinthians 7:8,27, 40. His whole presentation of celibacy and marriage shows balance and restraint. He does not make it a matter of faithfulness or unfaithfulness. It is, rather, a question of free choice, with the balance tipping in favor of singleness for those who are able to remain chaste in that state.
Immediately after stating “it is well for a man not to touch a woman,” Paul added: “Yet, because of prevalence of fornication, let each man have his own wife and each woman have her own husband.” (1 Corinthians 7:1, 2) After advising unmarried persons and widows to “remain even as I am,” he was quick to add: “But if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to be inflamed with passion.” (1 Corinthians 7:8, 9) Again, his counsel to widowers was: “Stop seeking a wife. But even if you did marry, you would commit no sin.” (1 Corinthians 7:27, 28) This balanced counsel reflects freedom of choice.