What??? Brother and sister??? Words fall me
What he’s saying is Christians multiply.
It’s conservative Catholic doctrine, like it or not.
To bend would be to ultimately destroy the Church.
Remarried (after divorce) = not married, don’t have sex.
Remarried (after widowhood) = married, please have sex.
Remarried (after annulment) = married for the first time.
>Realize that it also has a missional implication in evangelizing cultures that are not monogamous (be it American or foreign). But the remarried couple wishing to heed God's Word and follow it should not cohabit, nor should they separate, divorce, or re-remarry. These are secular and devilish in finding ungodly methods to dealing with their predicament.
For a solidly correct exposition of this matter, read through the article "THE SIN OF REMARRIAGE ADULTERY" (click here), in which the ending text states:
There are some in America who have followed a similar pattern to abstain from cohabitation adultery so as to please the Lord and abstain from uncleanness and defilement. Certainly those who truly love The Father and one another would prefer such an arrangement to that of being excluded from inheriting Eternal Life and the Kingdom of The God. . .
It is imperative that the couple fall on their knees before God and seek His face and direction as to how to perform His will in this matter. But remember it is vital that we “Continually abstain from semblances of every wicked thing” (1 Thes. 5:22 APT*).
* A Precise Translation)
But try. Try to use your words.
There are four places in the New Testament where Our Lord teaches that to divorce one spouse and marry another, is adultery.
Is the better solution just to get an X-Acto knife and cut out those parts?
Or maybe just footnote it with, “Don’t worry, He’s not serious”?
It should be noted that these moral laws are non-discriminatory anyway: they apply equally to invalid marriages whether gay and straight.
Two gay men in an invalid marriage need to either separate, or live as brother-and-brother.
Or would you have it otherwise?