He found a new lover. How is that any braver than dumping your wife for a new woman?
“He found a new lover. How is that any braver than dumping your wife for a new woman?”
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While both are indeed sins, one is against the very physical nature of the man created by the Lord God.
It is often easier for the repentant adulterer to return his/her face back to the Lord God.
It’s often by degrees the sinner leaves the love, grace, and protection of the Lord God. That is why it is only after a certain line known by the Lord God only, that He will given over the sinners heart to satan.
There are cases where after only dropping to the most sinful states a person becomes repentant and those are the most strident of announcing the Grace of the Lord God.
A person leaving a heterosexual marriage leaves not only the other person’s heart in shock, concern, puzzlement, it leaves the person’s heart questioning his/her value as a man or woman itself.
It’s a much deeper cut; the difference between a kitchen knife, with a wound while often deadly has a better chance of being healed than a large machete cut to the body.
Sorry for the rambling.
I think, perhaps his faith was shaken so badly during the time of his daughter’s kidnapping it allowed an open wound to be festered by satan.
Waitaminnit. What does he mean by "intend"? You may not have intended it as an end --- something you positively and definitely wanted --- but you intended it as collateral damage which could have been avoided just by showing her the love and loyalty she always showed you.
He deliberately chose a few garbled fragments of temporary sexual satisfaction --- he hopes --- and at the cost of excruciating pain to his wife and who-knows-what kind of suffering to his 6 children.
Saying he didn't "intend" it doesn't matter even one little bit. How these cruel people justify themselves --- hurting and humiliating the people who have loved them most --- in order to serve their fleeting, degrading fantasies.
Your Savior sez, "Yeah, wife-dumping, family-wrecking and sodomy are fine, as long as you do it for lo-o-o-ve"?
Truly, there is such a thing as diabolical deception.