Both but mostly contract nowadays

Yeah, that's right.

it certainly is both. first a marriage a contract because both parties know they must abide by certain rules that cannot be broken; once broken, it entitles the other party to bring the contract to an end i.e. termination of contract resulting from breach of contract.

secondly, it is a convenant because of the oath that is taken before man and God. it entails not breaking the covenant whether you are going thru the best or the worst with the person. u just stick in your neck just beccause u said 'i do'

either way, it is a contract or convenant that is supposed to last for the whole of the partakers' lives or till death seperates them.

The infamous so called Abuja marriage(u know what i mean) do not even amount to as a contract. Marriage properly conducted in totality is a convenant. Let God speak on this issue at Malachi 2vs14,He said (And you have said,On what account? On this account,that Jehovah himself has borne witness between you and the wife of your youth, with whom you yourself have dealth treacherously,although she is your partner and the wife of your CONVENANT.)

Covenant?? WTF!!! This is what makes some people stay in abusive relationships till death.
Reports have shown that many people in the past used to stay in empty shell marriages all to satisfy the 'covenant' thing.

Nowadays, believe it or not, people value a good marriage more . . . that's the main reason for the increasing divorce rate.
No one wants to stay in a dead marriage . . . where they're only husband and wife on paper.

Even in the Bible, marriage is a contract . . . there is a clause of fidelity attached to it.
Nowadays there are just more clauses.

Most views expressed so far are borne out of 'human reasoning'.
You cannot explain spiritual things by human rationalisation.
Marriage is a covenant-no more, no less.

Marraige is both a contract and covenant. It all depends on the perspective you r looking at it from

Hmmm!! Does it take a bind and deaf person to know that marriage is a 'Covenant'?  However marriage can be a Contract if those in it decides to make it so. You see, marriage is the holiest union God has bestowed on us but some people do not understand what marriage is all about.  Marriage only becomes a contract when those in it permits a third party part-take in it e.g. the inlaws and other people having a say in your maritals when there is a domestic - and worse of all when (for those who indulge in it) concubines and boyfriends come to town in a marriage, just wait for it!! You see, most people are full of pretences about the nature of their marriages and no matter how and what we pretend our marriages to be more than perfect than our brother's, sister's, cousin's and neighbours' - we are lying/deceiving ourselves because there's no such thing as 'a perfect marriage' but we can always try.  Every marriage has its own issues that can break it up - a lot of things can break up a marriage especially adultery from either side however, men in the 3rd world get away with murder because of lack of legal protection for women and the culture that have stiffled women in these areas for so long thus, men in the  West can only dream of the adultreous lifestyles of their fellow men in the the 3rd world.  Women in the West have choices and therefore, men (black and white) can not get away with such NONSENSICAL and sh-t.  They will be flogged where it hurts much and you know where?  In their wallets and everything is 'HALVED', I promise you.   So, next time they see a woman, they make sure she is the one they ACTUALLY married and I like that.  Its good to recognise your own isn't it than taking someone else's.  Although, you may get away with this kind of behaviour in the 3rd world, please men avoid whatever is going to cause the issues that might make your marriages a contract and embrace an everlasting covenant of a HAPPY marriage - my advise to you.

There can be no perspective other than that of Almighty God.

Marriage is both a contract and a covenant. A contract and a covenant because both parties needs to agree to go into it. Both can be BROKEN physically or spiritually. The death of one party puts an end to both. If the oath of engagement is not well taken, then its marriage on paper whether contract or covenant.
These days the covenant or contract is not always complete :

(1) it’s always for better not for worse for worse has been extracted from the covenant or contract which ever you choose.
(2) Declaration of status : the couple are often declare as “MAN AND WIFE” instead of “HUSBAND AND WIFE “ so you see the man still behaving like man which he use to be and the woman now behaving like a woman which the contract or covenant declare her to be.

Physically there is punishment for breach of contract, spiritually there is punishment for breach of an oath(covenant)

Marriage is both a covenant and a contract.

It is not both. Marriage is a covenant. How simple does it need to get for we to understand this?

MARRIAGE IS A COVENANT,BECAUSE BOTH BRIDE AND THE GROOM ARE BOUND
TOGETHER WITH A HOLT BOOK I.E BIBLE/QURAN

True talk Agbele1.

Marriage is a covenant. That is true as many posters pointed out. However, I still hold it is part contract because though it is holy and spiritual in its creation, it is still partly a vehicle for the natural world. This is even borne out in both the old and new testaments in the bible as some have pointed out. Under Mosaic law divorce was allowed because of the hardness of man's heart. However, in the new testament, it a man was allowed to 'put his wife away' only for adultery. Also, the new testament teaches that if your spouse in unsaved and content to dwell with you, let him stay but if not let him depart for in this cause you are not bound. Though marriage is a covenant, God, in his mercy, made provision for the errors in judgment we make. The contract portion of marriage is only the agreement of the parties to be married but the duties of the parties are set forth by God and no worldly wisdom will supersede the truth or power of God's word. Parties bare bound eternally by the standard of the Word.

NOTHING ELSE BUT COVENANT. OKAY?

Godbless you, brownzola. You spoke right.

Put on your proof.

Simply Covenant as orderined by God (full stop)

Proof? (laugh). What kind of proof do we need to tell us the obvious?

Hi,
Marriage is a covenant and not a cotract.
It is a spiritual union that is meant to generate oneness.
The covenent blesses couples that obey their sides of the covenant.
And the covenent last forever.

A contract has a terminal date,it is not a spiritual union but a union as a
result of mutual agreement.
Please do not marry for contractual reasons cos it may be fatal.
Cheers
Kolawole.B

Marriage is Contracting Covenant.

A contracting covenant?

George_D:

A contracting covenant?

. . . .or just a plain union??

marriage is a covenant btw two persons that is on the christian side of it, as the bible has admonished us but from the worldly part of it, they see as a contract.

seeing it as a covenant will help build your home well and leave a pleasant life but the other way round will only lead to problems then divorce.

It will only be a covenant when you learn to look at things God's way.

Both.

Marriage is a contract and covenant. by the way the two words can be used interchangeably. When you contract out a job, you are giving the person your word/covenanting with the person that they will be the ones doing it. breaking the contract can be difficult. breaking the marriage contract can be difficult unless you are Donald trump. but seeing as no one but donald trump is donald trump, lets assume its a binding covenant

do we 'assume' with things of God?

It's a contract. It's a legal document that says you and your spouse are together. To prove my point, go and get a divorce

a covenant

marriage being a contract to ppl is the cause of adultery and high rate of divorce and break-ups

@ George D

I dont know if we are supposed to, but usually we do. But the topic is marriage covenants and contracts. I believe covenant is the same as contract.