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3. RE: Do You Prefer an Assyrian Man to Share Your Life With? Yes. Why? And Where is Such a Man?

May-21-2001 at 11:16 AM (UTC+3 Nineveh, Assyria)

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Marriage is hard.
Statistics tell us that a marriage in America won't last. Falling in love with a man can be a fanciful notion. People shy away from commitment. Sexual, religious, political, social freedom are all enticing for men and women. Humans are organisms that do not want to be constricted by norms, rules, and society.

What can unite two people together?
It is certainly not culture, race, geographic locations, social status or education. The Pakistani couple have just as many marital feuds as the White-Asian couple. The couple with phD's have just as many arguments and misunderstandings as the couple who came from Mexico. Couple after couple, it is clear that marriage is an institution that is not realistic.

I want to argue that the only way that two people can respect the institution of marriage is if they understand what marriage is. Marriage is not about having a best friend, or a partner for intercourse, or a business partner, or a rite of passage for society. The only way people can respect marriage is if they understand it is sacred and ordained by God. The bible has amazing passages that describe the beauty of marriage, and, more importantly, it is ordained by God. Therefore, if two people are 'married' to each other with a working understanding of a divine, loving God that transcends them, they now have a will and a purpose and a responsibility for a third, most important party. The argument that hurts your husband now hurts God. A man who cheats on his wife cheats on the God who blessed his marriage. If God is the axis of anyone's relationship, the relationship is given a new meaning and a new purpose.

In a marriage ordained by God, we give up our rights to mercilessly hurt each other, cheat on each other and abuse each other in order to have freedom to love each other. Just as in a democracy, where people voluntarily give up rights in order to form an ordered society and gain rights, the marriage allows a man and a woman to give up rights and shift from acting like an organism to acting like a spiritual being responsible for a greater cause.

Amazing, huh?

To answer your question... no , i don't think that marriage is better or worse with an Assyrian or a non-Assyrian. Marriage is blessed when two people share a higher goal of love and servitude for God. If they both have this higher goal, then they will only desire love and servitude for each other.
Marriage isn't perfect, but if your marriage is ordained by a Perfect God then what have you got to lose?
Julia Sorisho

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Assyrian \ã-'sir-é-an\ adj or n (1998)   1:  descendants of the ancient empire of Ashur   2:  the Assyrians, although representing but one single nation as the direct heirs of the ancient Assyrian Empire, are now doctrinally divided, inter sese, into five principle ecclesiastically designated religious sects with their corresponding hierarchies and distinct church governments, namely, Church of the East, Chaldean, Maronite, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic.  These formal divisions had their origin in the 5th century of the Christian Era.  No one can coherently understand the Assyrians as a whole until he can distinguish that which is religion or church from that which is nation -- a matter which is particularly difficult for the people from the western world to understand; for in the East, by force of circumstances beyond their control, religion has been made, from time immemorial, virtually into a criterion of nationality.   3:  the Assyrians have been referred to as Aramaean, Aramaye, Ashuraya, Ashureen, Ashuri, Ashuroyo, Assyrio-Chaldean, Aturaya, Chaldean, Chaldo, ChaldoAssyrian, ChaldoAssyrio, Jacobite, Kaldany, Kaldu, Kasdu, Malabar, Maronite, Maronaya, Nestorian, Nestornaye, Oromoye, Suraya, Syriac, Syrian, Syriani, Suryoye, Suryoyo and Telkeffee. — Assyrianism verb

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