A repentant murderer on death row would be given Communion. An unrepentant murderer probably wouldn't even seek Communion, and it would be wrong to give it to him should he ask.
Conversely, the remarried divorce[e] is not repentant (save in the case where the two have agreed to live without marital relations). Let's be clear: it is not the divorce that was necessarily the sin. It was the attempted remarriage that was the sin, and the sin is renewed each time the remarried person has sex with his or her new “spouse.” It is adultery.
Thus, there is no question of forgiveness. Forgiveness is always available, but it really and truly helps if one acknowledges one’s guilt, and makes some purpose to try to amend one’s life. You know, something about, “Go and sin no more.”
It is nonsense to say that the remarried couple have repented of the sin of the on-going adultery if they don't even acknowledge that it is a continuing sin for them to engage in marital relations.
"Go[ing] and sin[ning] no more" would include separating from the second "marriage."
For those who find themselves remarried, if changing their marital status would cause harm to subsequent children, the couple must do their best to renounce engaging in “marital” relations, and live with each other in continence, as brother and sister. Then, they may freely receive Communion.
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roll eyes..........how absurd.
And if they did it before they can to faith in Christ? What then? Did He not forgive them?
They can't go and get a divorce and remarry the former spouse.
God prohibits that. Deuteronomy 24:1-4
I can not disagree with your Church's doctrine...Hey, it's your church...But Jesus gave no such command to His church...Why does your religion make a liar out of God???
Mat 19:9 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.
If a divorce is the result of fornication, the one who did not commit the fornication is allowed to re-marry and have a healthy sex life...
And these people are under the law...Sabbath worshiping, pork abstaining Jews under the law...