Part one of term paper
A sacrament is any visible sign of God’s invisible presence. Matrimony is a sacrament of vocation and commitment to a life of mutual love and service. In the Roman Catholic Church the institution of holy matrimony was raised to the level of a sacrament due to the origin of the divine grace that made an indissoluble union, the union of Chr ...

Part two of term paper
... 2:18,24). God himself created marriage “in the beginning”. His will “that man should not be alone” and command to “be fertile and multiply” (Genesis 1:28) is directly linked to the union of husband and wife. It is also from this command that marriage in the Old Testament functions primarily for the begetting of children to preserve the husband’s clan. The Old Testament Jews considered children to be so important to marriage that not having children was something of a curse. “ ...