Do these people have any idea how much they sound like the Pharisies that Jesus used to berate for adding their own laws to the simple Law of Moses? They bring a woman whom they have caught in the act of adultery to Jesus. What does Jesus do? He says let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Then he starts writing in the sand and one by one the Pharasies leave until there are none left but Jesus and the woman. Jesus asks her if there is anyone left to condemn her? She says no and Jesus says neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.
How can this woman go and sin no more? She has to get married to one man and stay faithful to him. When a sin is forgiven a sin is forgiven.
It has been my experience that the first marriages are often mistakes. It is the second marriages that are actually blessed by God. At least that is the way it is in my Bible Study group. I guess we are lucky we aren’t Catholic.
Um, I dunno... Maybe simply stop fornicating?
She has to get married to one man and stay faithful to him.
No: Return to her husband and remain faithful to him. (This assumes that she was an adulteress in the sense of "married, but having relations with someone other than her husband").
When a sin is forgiven a sin is forgiven.
But it doesn't allow you to continue sinning.
Regards,
Since my SISTER introduced me to my husband (after I had said NO twice) I KNEW he was the man for me. My sister knew me and what I needed and wanted.
So, I was LUCKY in my sister. He wasn't a Catholic but that was okay.
I don't think that you are lucky if your idea is that first marriages are "often" mistakes. I would wonder where your prospective couples' parents, families and friends are to tell you about said bride or groom.
SOMETIMES people DO NOT learn from their mistakes. Only witness the multi-marriage-divorce route in Hollyweird.
Henry VIII made "marriage-divorce-remarriage" an Olympic sport. Non-Catholic Christians DO have that option to keep trying for "Mr./Ms Perfect."
There is a FReeper here who WAS a Catholic but her/his marriage failed. S/he divorced. No problem so far. But, s/he remarried and now 'crusades' against Catholicism.
It's not your/anyone's LUCK that is in play. It's their COMMON SENSE and VALUES. It's not rocket sense...just ETHICS and MORALITY.
Life is so short...and now s/he lives in sin. His/her "new" faith, a Protestant denomination that allows for marriage/divorce/remarriage, doesn't condemn what Jesus SAID was sinful.
"If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the Lord. Do not bring sin upon the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance" (Deuteronomy 24:1-4).
“So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate” (Matthew 19:6).
God realizes, though, that, since marriages involve two sinful human beings, divorces are going to occur. In the Old Testament, He laid down some laws in order to protect the rights of divorcées, especially women (Deuteronomy 24:1–4). Jesus pointed out that these laws were given because of the hardness of people’s hearts, not because such laws were God’s desire (Matthew 19:8).
Google it; it's all there.
It's not only a Catholic ideal, it's a CHRISTIAN ideal.
So, since you are a Christian...
Do you still feel "lucky"? Well, DO you, PUNK?!
OOOPS, sorry, fell into my "Dirty Harry" mode. Did NOT mean it. :o)
That's the whole point.
And the husband --- her one-and-only husband ---has to be faithful, too. He either has to be reconciled to her, or remain single and celibate out of faithfulness to her. At least, that's what the Christian Scriptures teach.
Tbis is actually enlightening to look up, if you want to get it from Jesus' perspective:
See Matthew 5:32, Matthew 19:9, Mark 10:11, Mark 10:12, Luke 15:18.
No divorce. And if you remarry, it's adultery.
This, then, became the practice of the early Church:
1 Corinthians 7:11-13
"But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife."
You say you’re not Catholic. But you do believe in the New Testament?
I have been tempted by a temptress...I asked Jesus to help me...I made i through. It’s tough though!