Hi, Are prenuptials Biblical and can you elaborate on it, God Bless, Kathy
Neither any of my biblical resources nor the Bible, as far as I am able to ascertain, addresses the subjection of prenuptial agreements. However, I did locate the following partial response on the Internet that another person offered to a similar inquiry.
Although prenuptial agreements are not mentioned in the Bible, God does tell us how we are to view marriage, and from that we can figure how agreements such as these would be viewed. First, God intended marriage to be permanent, everlasting. When two Christian people go into a marriage, it should be with the strong belief that divorce is not possible, and it should not even be an option. To have a premarital agreement allows for the possibility of divorce. When God formed Eve from Adam’s rib, He was signifying the purpose of a husband and wife relationship. The woman is the man’s helper, taken from under his protective arm and formed from the same flesh. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Obviously this means that separating should not even be a contemplation. The only reason divorce was ever allowed was because of sin, and people refusing to obey God’s Word. “Jesus replied, ‘Moses permitted divorce as a concession to your hard-hearted wickedness, but it was not what God had originally intended'” (Matthew 19:8). God never changes, and He despises divorce (Malachi 2:16). . . . None of what the Bible tells us about marriage can fit into the concept of a “just in case we get divorced you can’t take my stuff” agreement. (“What”)
I would be hesitant, though, to dogmatically avow that it would be sinful to enter a prenuptial agreement. Yet, it never occurred to me that faithful Christians would even imagine they needed a prenuptial agreement. Jesus did anticipate the possibility of divorce and remarriage with divine approval for the innocent party to adultery: “And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery” (Matthew 19:9). This may be a matter for personal decision, especially in light of the Bible’s silence on the matter, but an intended spouse who may be asked to sign a prenuptial agreement may need to rethink the commitment of his or her intended spouse, and the one asking an intended spouse to sign a prenuptial agreement may need to evaluate whether he fully trusts and loves that other person.
Works Cited
“What does the Bible say about prenuptial agreements?” Gotquestions” 26 May 2005 <https://www.gotquestions.org/prenuptial-agreements.html>.
