“let no one put asunder” tends to indicate that perhaps, yes, some Biblical basis for annulment would be at least handy, given we have little perspective on what marriage results in after we die. Do we part? Not sure. Are we married forever? I don’t know.
Do we really need specific Bible verse on any point of Christian dogma?
Catholicism, on the one hand, makes a big deal about the sanctity of marriage and the reception of the Sacrament in a state of grace, and then on the other is reticent to explore the Biblical basis of the process by which a divorced Catholic is restored to that state of grace.
Yes, probably, there ought to be something beyond ‘dispensational tradition’ to underpin it. It would be better.
An annulment has nothing to do with the continuation of the bonds of marriage after death. It is a declaration that there was some defect that prevented the that bond to be valid in the first place. To give but one example, if one of the parties committed fraud to trick the other into marriage this would not be a valid marriage.
Do we really need specific Bible verse on any point of Christian dogma?
The annulment process does not address what constitutes a valid marriage, i.e. the Christian dogma of marriage. It just asks did the parties conform to that dogma when they allegedly entered into marriage.
Catholicism, on the one hand, makes a big deal about the sanctity of marriage and the reception of the Sacrament in a state of grace, and then on the other is reticent to explore the Biblical basis of the process by which a divorced Catholic is restored to that state of grace.
Not at all. A valid marriage, following the words of our Lord, continues until death. Remain faithful to the bonds of that marriage an confess any sins of adultery that you committed contrary to those bonds and BINGO: you are restored to the state of grace.
Yes, probably, there ought to be something beyond ‘dispensational tradition’ to underpin it. It would be better.
But if you insist on a Bible verse:
[Jesus] said to them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) and marries another commits adultery.” (Matthew 19:8-9)Unlawful marriages (in the Greek porneia) are not binding. An annulment is a determination that a marriage is indeed porneia.