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To: Campion; annalex
Adultery is covered in the Gospel ("except it be for fornication"). So there you are on solid ground.

"Remarriage" is never mentioned, however.

Annulments experienced in the heart that is totally devoted to God, and with a meditative, prayerful, and finally totally clear conscience,and for totally unselfish reasons, I'm okay with that and He may be also. After all, he knows us completely and he judges us individually and with greater mercy than we can imagine.

It's the part about men deciding things for other men according to complex and rigidly codified rules that bugs me. Too subject to corruption and men making all the rules, besides being inherently hierarchical and unspiritual.

Also farcical people pontificating constantly about "God in the public square" when they're on marriage #3 bug me.

120 posted on 03/04/2009 4:18:49 PM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand
"Remarriage" is never mentioned, however

Right here:

he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery. (Mt 5:32)

121 posted on 03/04/2009 4:24:16 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: firebrand

The Greek in Matthew is “porneia” which includes, but is not limited to fornication. A better translation is “impurity,” which encompasses sexual impropriety in general, including improper consent to the marriage and its consummation.


135 posted on 03/04/2009 10:26:28 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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