QUIT CALLING CUSTOMARY MARRIAGE "ENGAGEMENT".



Anytime I hear people refer to this type of marriage as Engagement then my heart skills a beat.

This isn't engagement but rather the REAL marriage. The Bible admonishes us to pay the bride price (dowry) to the parents of the bride. So upon the receipt of the bride price, the woman automatically becomes a wife. As per our Ghanaian marital laws, this is a recognized and legal marriage.

When did marriage change into engagement these days?

Engagement in the Akan language is called (Kɔkɔɔkɔ) "knocking". Knocking is when you are formally introducing yourself as the would-be husband to the would-be wife's family. This is the time, lists for the marriage, and dates are given out. With knocking in the Akan tradition, you usually go to the woman's family with either your parents or the head of your family.

You present two bottles of Schnapps (pantu) and a small token in an envelope. So when did knocking (kɔkɔɔkɔ) transmogrified itself? We have maligned and denigrated our tradition and culture, all in the name of religion.

A typical and true Christian knows and believes that the Bible never talked about a "White wedding" anywhere in the Bible. But talks about what we call "Engagement". The Holy Bible says, "The man should go to the parents of the woman he wants to marry and pay the "bride price" to the parents of the woman."

After it has been accepted, the would-be-couple now becomes husband and wife. "You only get blessings in marriage from your parents, not any priest."

Consequently, the moment a parent gives their daughter's hand in marriage and has consented to the marriage, it has been accepted and blessed by God already because that is what was instituted from the beginning and is required of us by God.

I am not alluding by this saying that it is wrong or bad to have a white wedding. I seek to revise the misconception by some churches of today and religious people who do not recognize and acknowledge traditional marriage as a sacred union. We need to read, analyze and have an in-depth understanding of our Bibles.

Amamrɛ, yɛnto ntwene!
Sɛ worm a worm!


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