[MayflowerMadam]

“get back to me when you understand scripture”

Gee, my 18 years in a Baptist parsonage, and four years in Seminary ... I do recall:

“Luke 16:18 - Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.”

“Romans 7:2-3 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

“So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.”

[Ikeon]

I believe we all have sinned and deserve the worst possible outcome. OTOH, What can wash away my sins?, nothing but the blood of Jesus. .The Bible doesn't have caveats! doesn't matter how many times someone has been married. Only a silly god would condemn you after 1 marriage and divorce if you remarried.

ca·ve·at.[ˈkavēˌat, ˈkävēˌät] NOUN ..caveats (plural noun) a warning or proviso of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations

I'm not perfect, just forgiven

[RinaseaofDs]

So what is operable here is whether the marriage took place at all. This is how the Catholics are looking at it - even though you had the wedding, did a marriage really occur?