The International Council of Christian Churches (ICCC), meeting in its 20th World Congress, January 22-29, 2020, in Puerto Montt, Chile, strongly affirms the teaching of Scripture concerning marriage:

1. God — Creator, sustainer and sovereign of the universe — ordered that a man be united in marriage with a woman, in an exclusive and lifelong union (Genesis 2: 23-24);

2. That marriage according to what is established by God is a great good for human society; and

3. That said marriage also excludes the union of persons of the same sex or the coexistence of a couple
not legitimately united (Romans 1:21-32; I Corinthians 6:18-19). This was reaffirmed by the Lord Jesus Christ, who said: “Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one esh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one esh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put assunder” (Matthew 19:4-6).

The ICCC therefore calls on all Bible-believing Christians and churches to:

1. Reaffirm the ICCC’s adherence to marriage in the manner that God has established, without any allow- ance for other forms;

2. Exhort all faithful Christians to keep their marriages within the principles and norms that God has estab- lished; and

3. Oppose, with all the means that God’s providence provides, the laws that are being promoted by human- ists and atheists throughout the world which undermine Biblical marriage and, therefore, are against the welfare of human society.

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