Except in the case of sexual immorality in the first marriage. Matthew 19 IIRC.
But like all sins, even adultery is not beyond forgiveness. I would personally require confession and absolution, but I will not deny a repentant sinner the grace of God.
Key word repentant.
Your reference is to porneia, which is not sexual immorality in the first marriage but if the first marriage itself was illicit and thus invalid.
But like all sins, even adultery is not beyond forgiveness. I would personally require confession and absolution, but I will not deny a repentant sinner the grace of God.
It also requires a firm purpose of amendment, i.e. to stop sinning. Those who remain in an adulterous, and thus invalid, second marriage with the intent to continue in adulterous sexual acts lack this necessary requirement.
That’s right: if the first attempted marriage was itself sexually immoral or for some reason invalid -— let’s say, just for example, there was force or coercion involved —— then there can be an annulment because it wasn’t “right” to begin with.
Absolutely every sin can be forgiven with repentance, confession and absolution. And as you rightly said, the key word is “repentance”, which has to include a firm intention to turn away from sin and not just go back and keep committing it.