2007-10-23 10:07:20 · 13 answers · asked by trybugle 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All sins are the same. According to the bible it is a sin. But the above poster is right too, divorce is allowed on the grounds of infidelity.
2007-10-23 10:12:33 · answer #1 · answered by Tim N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Divorce is not the sin. Since you use the term "mortal sin" I assume you're asking from a Catholic perspective since that term isn't used elsewhere.
The sin would be to remarry. Civil divorce doesn't break the bond that matrimony forged. Even though you are divorced by the law of the land, you are still married. Remarriage is then adultery, which is a mortal sin.
Other Christian religions view things differently. And this divorced Catholic says, "More power to you."
2007-10-23 10:27:36 · answer #2 · answered by Debdeb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most couples who divorce for "irrconciable differences" are really divorcing for another reason more difficult to prove in court. When you stop arguing about the "Why" of a divorce, you save thousands of dollars of legal fees on both sides.
In the Bible there is not such thing as a "mortal sin".
Sin is sin.
Divorce is always a sin, but its not always a sin for both parties.
Often one is the innocent party.
Like a wife who goes to court claiming that her husband is abusive, yet she had never called 911 before she met her new boyfriend.
Then the children say, "We want to live with Dad!"
Usually only God and the couple and children know the real reason for divorce.
Divorce, like all other sins, except one, is forgiveable when people repent and surrender their lives to Jesus.
The one exception is mentioned in Matthew 12:31 and please don't try to understand it unless you read the entire chapter first.
Pastor Art
2007-10-23 10:29:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess that depends on what religion you are and your interpretation of what a mortal sin is, as we all seem to have differing opinions of the matter.
According to my beliefs, I don't believe it's a mortal sin. I believe it's a bigger sin to stay married when you can't get along. Why would you do it?
Divorce is not the big taboo.
I just wish there were more people out there who sought out help to resolve the issues, if they could, before they jump ship. But, it takes a lot of guts to leave a marriage, too, if you think about it. It's a mess.
2007-10-23 10:12:59 · answer #4 · answered by dancingirl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter what "your church says" and it doesn't matter if you get it annulled by the Catholics who have no right to annull something and go against what Jesus told us in the Bible. Men do not have the right to go in and change the Bible according to their whims which so many have done today.
God frowns on divorce but He knew it would happen. His instructions were if you divorce for any reason other than adultery, you can't remarry or you become an adulterer.
Y'all can give me all the thumbs down you want but the Bible speaks these truths and you'd best be reading it instead of listening to what man has to say on this issue.
Study His word instead of listening to others so you aren't lead astray.
Matthew 5:32
But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife "for any reason except sexual immorality" causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.
Mark 10:12
And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Luke 16:18
“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.
2007-10-23 10:35:38 · answer #5 · answered by KittyKat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they are acting responsibly and doing the sensible thing. The Catholic church knows as little about marriage as Rosie O'Donnell knows about common decency. They forbid priests from marrying (gee look how great that has worked out), and then tell their flock that they can't get a divorce, even when it is the logical (and most beneficial to all concerned) thing to do.
2007-10-23 10:16:49 · answer #6 · answered by Milepost 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to Jesus and the teachings of the Catholic Church, no, unless they marry again and the first marriage was not annulled.
Contrary to popular opinion, Catholics who are divorced are not excluded from Communion or the other sacraments -- again, provided that they have not remarried without an annulment.
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2007-10-23 10:16:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the irreconcilable differences is infidelity of one of the spouses, then the answer is no.
Minister
2007-10-23 10:12:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I divorced for irreconcilable differences and I had good reasons. If that puts me in hell then so be it.
2007-10-23 10:15:36 · answer #9 · answered by Yogini 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
only if someone died as a direct result of the divorce.
2007-10-23 10:14:10 · answer #10 · answered by sdb deacon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋