[Olog-hai]

This matter is supposed to apply to all Christianity, as well as Judaism. Malachi 2:16 is even clearer than the two verses that precede it.

[babygene]

It seems to me that if the Catholic Church is going to pronounce (which it seems to) all of the worlds religions that are a valid pathway to heaven, doesn’t square with the idea that divorced and remarried people are living in a state of Mortal Sin.

I would say you can’t have it both ways... One could argue that a marriage that didn’t last was not a covenant with God in the first place. If God had been involved in the first marriage it would not have broken up in the first place.

This is from a man who has been married to the same woman for 45 years.

[James C. Bennett]

According to Dt 24:1-4, Moses lays down that a man may present his wife with a certificate of dismissal and send her away from his house, if she no longer finds favour with him. Thereafter, both husband and wife may embark upon a new marriage.

And what recourse does a woman have, tables turned?

[piusv]

Time will tell how this turns out.