Divorce and Remarriage

http://www.truthmagazine.com/arch0.html ^ | Warren R. King

[trubluolyguy]

ahhh second marriages.....the triumph of hope over experience.

[GrandEagle]

Gotta tag this one for reading at lunch.
Sounds like an excellent post!

GE

[right right]

....and all sin is the same in the eyes of God, so telling a simple lie, or stealing a pencil from work, or a simple single lusty thought is the same as adultry, and all sins of all born again believers are forgiven with admission and repentance, so your point is...........

[Paul C. Jesup]

....and all sin is the same in the eyes of God, so telling a simple lie, or stealing a pencil from work, or a simple single lusty thought is the same as adultry, and all sins of all born again believers are forgiven with admission and repentance, so your point is...........

So a white lie is equal to genocide... *rolls eyes* Sir, whatever you on, stop taking it.

[starfish923]

ahhh second marriages.....the triumph of hope over experience.

What a comeback! EXcellent.

[starfish923]

One guy said that his second marriage was PUNISHMENT for divorcing his first wife, a good woman. :o)

[Rytwyng]

Rarely, rarely nowadays does anybody dare to proclaim that an unjustified remarriage is sinful, a state of continuing adultery, and that repentance requires terminating the relationship. This guy isn't afraid to barbeque sacred cows.

The RCC draws the lines a little differently, but has a similarly serious view of things. Perhaps you'd care to comment on the Catholic views re: "adultery exception" and on the "Pauline Privilege"?

[right right]

as you look at it from mans view it is not, but in the eyes of God it is, are you a pagan or just uninformed about the One True Living God or what?

[trubluolyguy]

Honestly it's not mine, I think it was Twain.

[leda]

excellent read! thanks for sharing it.

[Rytwyng]

Either of you care to give an Orthodox perspective on this?

[Rytwyng]

sins of all born again believers are forgiven with admission and repentance

True, true. But repentance sometimes must include undoing the sin, if it can be undone. And if a remarriage constitutes a state of continuous adultery, it can and must be undone.

[right right]

I disagree about this (undoing a marriage to make previous wrong things right) but we will find out someday down the road when the glass darkly is removed

[shekkian]

"And I say unto you, 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."

Maybe that was Scott Petersen's excuse.

sarcasm off

[HitmanLV]

No fault divorce is really the only social policy we can have, as a practical matter. It doesn't make any sense to force two people who don;t want to be together to remain together.

God will count it as a sin, and weigh it along with all the other sins all of us commit in life.

[mlc9852]

But divorce often affects the rest of the family also, not just the husband and wife. Marriage has basically become a meaningless institution. Easy to get in and easier to get out of. Children really do suffer the most.

[aimhigh]

And if a remarriage constitutes a state of continuous adultery, it can and must be undone.

I notice that this passage is conveniently missing from the discussion: 1 Cor 7:27-28 - "Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But even if you do marry, you have not sinned

[HitmanLV]

I don;t think that marriage is meaningless. what makes you think that? In any given year there are about 40 million married couples, then two million additional married couples, and about a million divorces. That's a million divorces against 42 million married couples. Not bad at all. Certainly not meaningless.