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IF you have a license to marry, you can be married in a SDA church, as long as one person is a male and the other person is a female. However, no SDA clergyperson is required to perform the marriage of anyone. I have refused to marry people when I did not consider it to be a marriage that would be successful. E.G. In one case I asked the women why she wanted to spend her life with the man. She replied that she had an airplane ticket home to mother and planned to file for divorce immediately. That is one I refused to perform.

And, most would say that the ceremonial law involved the entire Jewish sacrificial system that pointed forward to the coming life and death of Christ with the salvation that was accomplished at the cross. The discussion generally involves the role and function of the so-called 10-commandments. I will suggest that there is general agreement that the 10 commandments list elements that will continue on through today and into eternity. In eternity, we will worship one God, as described by the Trinity, we will not rob banks, we will not fornicate, we will not take the name of God lightly and we will not make images of God to worship. I will suggest that we can agree that in this life those are principles that guide us into a better life. From this perspective, I will suggest that we can say that the ten commandments constitute a part of the moral law exists beyond the time of Israel. This does not have to suggest that nothing changed in relation to the 10 commandments with the death of Christ. It simply tells us that there is an aspect of the 10 that continues on into eternity. From this perspective, the only question that remains is related to what the Protestants call the 4th commandment. {Catholics call it the 3rd commandment.) That question is this: Does the moral aspect of the Sabbath commandment require a 7th day Sabbath, or does it allow for a Sabbath on another day chosen by people who want to follow Christ? The different responses to this question are represented by people writing in this forum.