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The Sin of Divorce
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| 01/04/2005
| Adam Graham
Posted on 01/04/2005 12:24:26 PM PST by Keyes2000mt
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To: frgoff
The men who are still happily married don't dwell on the thought, entertain it, nurture it and then act on it.Well, at least we don't act on it...
:-)
To: Ginifer
We are everywhere,aren't we?
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:17:42 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Howlin
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What's even more amazing is the people who show up to cast the first stone.
Kind of like you.
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Thanks for illustrating my point. See, now it's all my fault for being such a cruel, mean, heartless person.
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:17:52 PM PST
by
frgoff
To: cyborg
It seems every man that is over forty and single was married already. My husband was a month shy of 42 when we got married, and he had never been married.
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:18:04 PM PST
by
Gabz
(Happy New Year)
To: ShadowDancer
I didn't say they should have stayed married. I'm saying that divorce is tragic and should be avoided - meaning that people should truly consider who they are going to marry before doing it.
Like so much else in our lives, marriage has become a disposable product. I don't think it should be.
My parents were awful together - if they would have considered that before entering into marriage together, they would have never done it.
To: Howlin
Nah, I'm Catholic. The one big "L" that would trump that one would be converting to Lutheranism.
To: frgoff
You sure do seem to be getting a big kick out of being so sanctimonious.
Glass houses, all that.
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:19:16 PM PST
by
Howlin
(I need my Denny Crane!)
To: hushpad; Keyes2000mt
You got it right. Being "gay" is a lifestyle affront to God. Divorce is a different matter but what I think the article is really saying is that the church needs to be purified before it can overcome the sin of homosexuality and the gay army of God haters. Once our own house is in order, then we will have real authority to take on the problem of homosexuality.
Today I had a conversation with my pastor about the gay thing.
Told him of Freud's suppressed "Seduction theory" that Freud was working in a French morgue before the turn of the last century and uncovered horrific sexual abuse against children. This theory was suppressed by a psychiatrist named Fliess who discredited Freud and put forth the female hysteria theory instead. (This is why doctors in the early part of the 20th century would perform hysterectomies on women -- just to calm them down!) Turns out Fliess was molesting his own son, and wanted to hush up this crime of the century against children.
Point being, I don't know ANY gay person who was NOT molested as a child. It is a Satanic plan to raise up this gay army against the church -- usually by using our own sexual sin and hypocrisy against us. Sexual abuse in the home is working to turn a generation against God if not to turn them gay.
We in the church must be compassionate about gays as well as holding the line with our own sinfulness.
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:19:23 PM PST
by
Californiajones
("The apprehension of beauty is the cure for apathy" - Thomas Aquinas)
To: Labyrinthos
Homosexuality doesn't even make the top ten "thou shall not" list.Matters not where it is listed. Homosexuality is still an absolute abomination.
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:19:26 PM PST
by
rdb3
(Can I join the Pajamahadeen even if I sleep in the nude?)
To: frgoff
I wouldn't say you're a cruel, mean, heartless person.
At bit of a jerk maybe, but definately not those other things.
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:20:00 PM PST
by
Doohickey
("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.”)
To: Mears
" We are everywhere,aren't we?"
Hope there will sufficient room for all of us.
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:20:00 PM PST
by
Ginifer
To: Kerfuffle
"I have been divorced, but agree with the writer... divorce is a sin that harms us all. However, I'm the one who has been sinned against."
Same here. My ex left after 15 years of marriage to "explore her freedom". Fortunately for me, exploring her freedom was more important to her then the custody of our two children and ownership of the home. The kids and their dad are doing just fine.
To: Kerfuffle
One poster said it before, Divorce is the result of sin not the cause of it.
Christians live under grace not the law. We are forgiven our sins as a result of Christ's grace towards us. He already knows what and when we will sin (it just happens to be every second of our lives).
That said Christ set out a narrow set of rules regarding when you can divorce and then remarry. The only reason was adultery. Adultery is not only sexual in nature, but is any form of abuse (non-loving relationship) that harms the other person. Remember Christ said of you look lustfully at a womoan you have committed adultery in your heart and it is just as much a sin as physically doing it.
The bottom line is that loving your spouse is a choice not an emotion and if you are truly attempting to be God pleasing you will choose to love your spouse period, even if you don't have strong emotional ties to them. In doing this God will bless you and in many cases provide you with the emotional attachment and excitement.
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:22:17 PM PST
by
boilerfan
(Hoosier born and Boilermaker educated!)
To: Californiajones
You're really on top of the gay thing.
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:22:42 PM PST
by
notigar
To: MayflowerMadam
Where's the article on "The Sin of Spousal Abuse"?Oh, on the bottom of the pile of pamphlets instructing you to offer up the abuse to God, and Christian Martyrdom 101.
The author of the article should remember, "judge not, lest ye be judged yourself"...
To: Jonx6
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:23:04 PM PST
by
TBall
To: Gabz
Or, perhaps you dear reader have had a divorce where you weren't at fault and that you didn't choose. Count me in as well.
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:24:04 PM PST
by
usurper
(Correct spelling is overrated)
To: rdb3
Matters not where it is listed. Homosexuality is still an absolute abomination.I didn't aay it isn't. I just want to know where the Bible ranks it a worse sin than divorce or adultery, for example.
To: boilerfan
Actually, you're wrong. Christ said: "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" (Mt. 19:9).
Seems like women are free to divorce for whatever they want.
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:25:24 PM PST
by
notigar
To: Howlin
Homosexuality doesn't even make the top ten "thou shall not" list.I seem to recall something about not coveting thy neighbor's ass...
LOL..what church is that?
Any church that follows the Bible. Exodus 20:17 in particular.
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posted on
01/04/2005 1:25:38 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(The DNC! Where boys and girls look the same! That's a little strange isn't it?)
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