open to any thoughts really. just thinking about this since so many people are divorcing nowadays.
2007-09-07 16:11:51 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
im asking because Catholicism doesn't recognize divorces.
SO maybe you, brian should get a bible.
2007-09-07 16:15:15 · update #1
oh yeah i should differentiate between being a widow and divorcee.
2007-09-07 16:16:29 · update #2
why brian, youre really on a roll! time and time again you show how foolish you really are.
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:je1rCSjyYGsJ:www.religioustolerance.org/div_rc.htm+catholic+view+on+divorce&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
the dictionary's definition of adultery is irrelevant to the Bible's.
2007-09-07 16:52:07 · update #3
When you are widowed, you are free to re-marry and have sexual relations with your new spouse.
Catholic
2007-09-07 16:14:54 · answer #1 · answered by I'm Here 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus lined this one up.
When widowed, it is obvious, you are released from the bonds of marriage and free to remarry and have all the privileges marriage has with it.
Divorce should not be a first option, except for incessant, unrepentant adultery, abuse and such. Not just because you're "tired" of the marriage.
The divorce rate went way up as soon as the "no fault" divorce was made legal. This way, marriage is now disposable. Many, even many Christians, go into marriage with the idea that if it doesn't work out...
'Tis a sad state of affairs in this world, sometimes.
2007-09-07 23:24:53 · answer #2 · answered by TroothBTold 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deuteronomy 24:1 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce.
Its not until the rise of christiandom that they changed the view of divorce.
Deut 4:2 Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the LORD your God that I give you.
Even 'Jesus' said to uphold the old laws..
Mat 5:18-19 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
I am not surprised though Christians love to change things and sin anyway that they can.
Hos 8:13 They LOVE sacrifice; they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but the LORD has no delight in them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sin
2007-09-07 23:22:00 · answer #3 · answered by Lion Jester 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,it is not adultery. Here are three examples from biblical texts,that support the claim.
1.)Romans 7:2-3 tells us, “For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.”
Looks like Brother Kait and I,have been fishing in the same well. LOL
2.)1st Timothy 5:14 Therefore, I want younger [widows] to get married, bear children, keep house, [and] give the enemy no occasion for reproach.
3.)"For I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn".1 Corinthians 7:8-9(this means to burn with passion by the way)
2007-09-07 23:15:06 · answer #4 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romans 7:2-3 tells us, “For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.” Even with divorce occurring in 50% of marriages today, most wedding vows still contain the phrase “till death do us part.” This phrase may not be specifically from the Bible, but the principle in Biblical.
2007-09-07 23:16:47 · answer #5 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the answer Schneb wrote. However, in the Old Testament, if a man dies his brother is supposed to marry the widow. Also, any children resulting in their coupling are legitimately the dead man's offspring. Just a little FYI.
2007-09-07 23:24:06 · answer #6 · answered by vapidparagon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The death of a spouse is about the only reason Jesus gives permission to remarry, that an an unfaithful spouse.
2007-09-07 23:20:02 · answer #7 · answered by B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you believe you are forgiven for your sin's ?Divorce is NOT the unforgivable sin .When it say's have one wife it does noe mean one wife in this flesh life time GOD know's ,we don't alway's make the right decisions in this life that why he gave his life for OUR sin's .I was beaten and abused for 5 year's ,you can't say it was all my fault and I should and should have stayed and worked it out.I would be dead SOOOO now I am happily married to th eright one .GOD FORGIVE's so should people . PEACE TO YOU
2007-09-07 23:45:10 · answer #8 · answered by grace 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the man or woman you are married to dies you are free to remarry. It is not in any close to a divorce. God approves of this.
2007-09-07 23:21:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it is not. According to Paul, you are free to marry again.
Romans 7
For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.
2007-09-07 23:14:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
In the scenario you mentioned, it is not wrong to have sexual relations with your new spouse.
While we're on this topic, Sex is an awesome gift from the Lord, and yet we sometimes put too much emphasis on this gift, for shallow pleasures. I for one have been known to have a weakness in this area. But where I am weak God is strong. The following information is how God has strengthened me in this area.
What the Lord has revealed to me, is that when a man & woman join together in marriage and become one in the most intimate way, It is a portrayal of what the husband (Christ) and the wife (Christians) are becoming in Spiritual Holy Matrimony.
The "fruit of the womb" is what we humans call a "love child." At this point in our relationship we have conceived love in the purest and most innocent way. When Christ penetrates your heart mind body and soul with his Truth in Love, he has conceived his "Love child of God, in you." This is why Holy matrimony is so important, awesome and pure. Marriage should never be taken lightly, as God does not take his marriage with his bride lightly.
So the next time you have an intimate moment with your spouse, remember it is a privilege, neigh, a special moment in Purity & Love, where two spiritual beings become one, in mind, body and soul. God is in us and we are in him if we walk in love as he is "Love."
1 John 4:16
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Matthew 19:5-6
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
The absence/misconceived ideas of any of the following Love values/Characteristics could cause people to divorce.
James 1:15
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (This could also be perceived as meaning death to a marriage both an earthly or our spiritual marriage with our Lord.)
1 Corinthians 13:1-3, 8, 13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
A relationship was never meant to be based on having fun together, but to grow in Love and enjoy each other as you become one in yourselves but most importantly becoming one in Christ.
1 Corinthians 16:14
Let all your things be done with charity.
Colossians 3:14
And above all these things put on charity (Love), which is the bond of perfectness.
"This is a Love Life."
In Christ,
Alight4JC
2007-09-08 02:37:38 · answer #11 · answered by alight4jc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋