You haven't improved your case. Your defining characteristics do not make for a strong and lasting no God honoring marriage.
You seem to be trying to redefine the argument, but that won't work since you don't even know what a definition is nor what a defining characteristic is.
We are not talking about a "strong and lasting" relationship.
We are not talking about a "God honoring" relationship.
We are talking about the bare minimum defining characteristics of a marriage.
This includes the marriages that end in divorce in less than a week and marriages by atheists.
What are the properties held by all members of the class of object called marriage that are so distinctive that they are sufficient to determine membership in that class called marriage across most cultures found throughout recorded human history?
- A sexual relationship between the spouses.
- Offspring as a result of that sexual relationship (optional)
- Inlaws (optional)
Pay attention to the qualifiers and volumes of unspoken assumptions here that allow OD to make this claim. The thread has discussed all marriages while OD has limited all of his comments to one very specific set of marriages. Classic SOD, trolling be keeping his responses intentionally vague.
You are also limiting your comments to one very specific set of marriages.
If you want to discuss the differences between a marriage and a strong and lasting God honoring marriage, start a new thread.