I used to know it, but can't find it right now...
2007-05-21 11:59:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't give a sh*t if people get divorced, but I get angry when uptight chrisitians claim that adultery is no excuse to get a divorce whenever Christ himself said it was pretty much the only reson.
2007-05-21 12:16:41 · update #1
That is a bad translation, as these sites explain:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/sbrandt/marriage.htm
http://members.aol.com/johnprh/marriage.html
2007-05-21 12:11:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Whoa, look how you worded it.
If you are in a dangerous marriage, you can leave.
If your kids are abused, you can leave taking the kids to safety.
Nothing in the Bible says you cannot not leave.
You can stay away as long as necessary to get the marriage back in order.
Once the abuser as stopped, remorseful, gone through the necessary counseling, etc,etc, then pick up where things was left off and keep going.
The Bible does give the only reason to divorce though.
2007-05-21 19:15:41 · answer #2 · answered by rangedog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Besides Mat 5:32, it's also in Mat 19:9
2007-05-21 19:24:40 · answer #3 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Matt 5:32
2007-05-21 19:06:46 · answer #4 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Matthew 5:32
However, I say to YOU that everyone divorcing his wife, except on account of fornication, makes her subject for adultery, and whosoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
2007-05-21 19:08:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Mat 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
~Neeva
2007-05-21 19:08:41 · answer #6 · answered by Neeva C 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
it doesn't matter, really.
xians only shriek about the anti-gay laws.
they divorce like crazy, making divorce an institution in this country, ignoring the words of jesus about divorce...
it's the usual hypocrisy, cherry-picking the bible -- shrieking loudly about bible-laws that don't affect them, ignoring the bible laws that woudl make their lives inconvenient. THAT is the xian way!!
2007-05-21 19:04:41 · answer #7 · answered by Phyllis 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Does it really matter? One shouildn't stay in a relationship just because some 2000 year old superstitious yahoos said you can't leave.
You have a brain. Use it. Only you can determine if the relationship you are in it worth staying in.
2007-05-21 19:02:54 · answer #8 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋