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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: cyborg
I don't think so.
He has always been rather a bit of an exception to the rule. to this day he gets ribbed by guys he went to school with who were already grandfathers when he was becoming a first time daddy.
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posted on
01/04/2005 2:00:37 PM PST
by
Gabz
(Happy New Year)
To: Howlin
Gosh, we just might be heading for majority faction in the GOP!Lol! Hey, aren't we statistically supposed to be jackbooted feminists?
Btw, sign me up for the "divorcees in hell list". It's fixing to be a big list ;-D
To: Keyes2000mt
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posted on
01/04/2005 2:01:48 PM PST
by
woodb01
(Re-Designed ANTI-DNC Web Portal at ---> http://www.noDNC.com)
To: Howlin
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posted on
01/04/2005 2:02:22 PM PST
by
airborne
(Dear Lord, please be with my family in Iraq. Keep them close to You and safely in Your arms.)
To: Jim Noble
I'm in a second marriage, my ex is still living.
My wife's pastor says we're committing adultery.
Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby.
Here is another thing that comes to mind. About that "who God brings together, let no man put asunder" scripture.
How does any person know that, in your first marriage, God actually brought you together? So, even if you are divorced, if God did not plan for you to be together, then it would not have been marriage in his sight, but maybe the second marriage is.
I know that in my second marriage, I understood what a VOW TO GOD meant, in my first, at sixteen, I did not. The marriage failed and probably for good reason. God does not keep someone under the bondage of sin for childish mistakes.
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posted on
01/04/2005 2:03:54 PM PST
by
hushpad
(Come on baby. . .Don't fear the FReeper. . .)
To: Jim Noble
My wife's pastor says we're committing adultery. If you don't mind sharing, I'd be interested to know the pastor's recommendation for your situation. Hopefully he doesn't recommend another divorce. Thanks in advance,
Hat-Trick
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posted on
01/04/2005 2:04:51 PM PST
by
Hat-Trick
(Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
To: TheSpottedOwl
Ha! Good one; I like that!
I think my mom, the minister's wife/doormat, has been offering up the abuse to God for 60 years now and I don't see that it's done a bit of good. You're right; the author needs to think a little deeper...
To: ShadowDancer
Do you really think it's possible for two people who are emotionally and physically attracted to one another and who are contemplating spending the rest of their lives together to live in the same house together and not have sex? Sure. It's called "marriage".
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posted on
01/04/2005 2:06:24 PM PST
by
malakhi
To: MayflowerMadam
I was actually told by some "Christians" to stay with someone who was beating me to a pulp because under "the law" the only two reasons for divorce were "abandonment" and "infidelity". This to me is a matter of symantics....divorce is allowable if your spouse slips up and has sex with someone else for one night but if they use you as a punching bag for months, it's a sin if you divorce him. To me, abandonment doesn't have to be physical. Emotional abandonment is just as valid....If they are beating you up, you bet they've abandoned you emotionally!
To: Mears
I didn't WANT a divorce,I HAD to get a divorce to save my sanity.We are both better off now and so are the kids. From the first time I saw the lawyer until now I have never regretted it. AMEN!
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posted on
01/04/2005 2:07:13 PM PST
by
malakhi
To: MayflowerMadam
True enough. I have never believed that God would intend for someone to stay married to someone "until death do us part" if one spouse were to bring about the death to end the marriage. I do believe murder is a sin as well.
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posted on
01/04/2005 2:07:18 PM PST
by
exnavychick
(I'm no expert, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!)
To: DainBramage; ShadowDancer
"What are you doing Saturday night?"
Here.
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posted on
01/04/2005 2:10:39 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
(Who is General Chat?)
To: Keyes2000mt
I'm divorced and happier than when I was married. And Cali's 6 month "cooling off period" didn't stop me from moving out and a 6 hour drive away from him either.
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posted on
01/04/2005 2:11:07 PM PST
by
Bella_Bru
(You're about as funny as a case sensitive search engine.)
To: Mears; Just another Joe
I didn't want a divorce either, but had to do it to save my life.
It was actually 16 years ago today that I received the paperwork with my divorce decree in the mail, and while the mental/emotional scars are long gone, the physical ones still exist. I hadn't thought about that in years....but I guess this thread brought that memory back to me.
I met my (now) husband shortly after I left the other one, but before the divorce was done. We'll be married 8 years next month, but had known each other nearly 9 years before we got married.
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posted on
01/04/2005 2:11:23 PM PST
by
Gabz
(Happy New Year)
To: Bella_Bru
Now you drink all nighte and look at rocks all day.
To: Keyes2000mt
I heard on a Religious channel this Sunday that "Divorce is like murdering your family." A little harsh...
But one stat that is interesting is that kids do better if one of their parents DIE than if they both are alive, but get divorced. Dr. Laura has mentioned this many times.
To: sonserae
Where people make mistakes with the Mal 2:16 verse is what was the context of what was being said. God was talking to the men because he was upset with them for marrying wives and then divorcing them to marry other woman. He is mad at men not keeping there "vows" and divorcing woman over and over again. People misuse this verse and then say it applies to every divorce situation. Even the guy who wrote this article does not understand the verse and the context.
To: Howlin
Should we create a ping list? ;-)
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posted on
01/04/2005 2:13:55 PM PST
by
Bella_Bru
(You're about as funny as a case sensitive search engine.)
To: VRWCisme
For people marrying in a church ceremony, this is almost always, if not always, required. Yet there are plenty of divorces among those couples, too. The counseling is often cursory and the couple may not pay that much attention-it's just another thing on the long list of to do's.
This is so true. We're going through premarital counseling now and have found it to be fairly cursory. The pastor is spending as much time on planning the ceremony as he is on actually counselling us on marriage. (Granted, we aren't terribly fond of the guy and plan to change churches after the wedding...just dealing with it so I can be married in the church where I was raised)
Even the Catholic pre-cana process, which is more involved than many Protestant or Jewish premarital programs, is viewed by many as an annoyance. Several friends have been married recently in the Catholic church and paid little attention to it besides being another thing to check off on the to-do list. None of them wanted to listen to a never-married priest preach to them about birth control and the challenges of effective communication with one's spouse. Some may say that makes them not Catholic, but I can't help but think that more of a mentoring experience with long-married couples might be more effective.
To: sonserae
Amen to all you said. I was told the same thing by "Christians" while my ex-husband was knocking me around. I left anyhow. This was back in the '70s when it wasn't a topic people discussed. I left the SOB anyhow, and my name was/is Mud because of it.
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