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I know many years ago most denominations held to some form of the belief that remarriage after divorce was adultery based on Jesus' words in Luke 16:18 and Mark 10:11-12, etc. I am wondering what denominations currently still hold to this standard? I know some Mennonites do, and some Anabaptists, but I was wondering who else still holds to Jesus' standard for marriage?
Interestingly, the Anglican Communion does, at least officially. Despite the extreme waywardness of the Episcopal Church in America, the Anglican Communion does hold this belief. One interesting example was when Prince Charles developed a long-term relationship with his present wife. Following the death of Princess Diana, he married his mistress in a prvate ceremony in the chapel at Windsor Castle conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Prior to the wedding both Charles and his mistress made a complete confession of their sin to the Archbishop. If Diana had remained alive Charles would have been forbidden to marry another wife even if he had divorced Diana.
The churches of Christ (not a denomination) holds to the view that the only way a person can remarry is if adultry was ivolved in the marriage or if the person mate died. Any other reason would be living in adultry
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Catholics do not believe divorce is even possible in light of Church teaching, and passages like "what God has joined let no man separate," etc. Someone might bring up annulments as the Catholic version of divorce, but that is incorrect. An annulment is a determination that the sacrament of marriage was not actually administered in the first place.
Is it adultery if you became a christian AFTER your first marriage ends in divorce?
(this is not my case, just curious. )
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Coptic Orthodox Church allows divorce only in the case of adultery. Remarriage is granted for the innocent party alone.
Separation is granted in case of abuse.
Annulment is granted is case of fraud only (e.g. one party lying about a chronic disease or something)
What I find hypocritical about this subject, even among some Christians, is that if a person had five sexually illegal partners in five previous unmarried relationships, one after the other, and those relationships ended badly and that person eventually met and married someone else, that person would receive lots of praise for their new marriage relationship, even from among Christians.
But if a person was in one sexually legal relationship with one marriage partner and the relationship ended badly and that person eventually met and married someone else, that person would be condemned, even among Christians, as an adulterer for having remarried.
This sounds like hypocrisy to me.
It seems to me that you can fornicate as mush as you like before marriage and then get married happily ever after to someone else, but to have been in a legal marriage relationship that ended badly and to get married to someone else is looked upon as an abomination.
If this is not hypocrisy I don’t know what is.
I think that to have lived in fornication with a number of partners then to have married someone else is far worst than to have lived in a marriage relationship with one partner then to have remarried to someone else.
Maybe the church should not marry anyone who ever fornicated, and not just those who are divorced.
I think that a person who lived in a previous unmarried relationship and eventually married someone else is no different to a person who lived in a previous marriage relationship and eventually remarried to someone else.
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What I find hypocritical about this subject, even among some Christians, is that if a person had five sexually illegal partners in five previous unmarried relationships, one after the other, and those relationships ended badly and that person eventually met and married someone else, that person would receive lots of praise for their new marriage relationship, even from among Christians.
But if a person was in one sexually legal relationship with one marriage partner and the relationship ended badly and that person eventually met and married someone else, that person would be condemned, even among Christians, as an adulterer for having remarried.
This sounds like hypocrisy to me.
It seems to me that you can fornicate as mush as you like before marriage and then get married happily ever after to someone else, but to have been in a legal marriage relationship that ended badly and to get married to someone else is looked upon as an abomination.
If this is not hypocrisy I don’t know what is.
I think that to have lived in fornication with a number of partners then to have married someone else is far worst than to have lived in a marriage relationship with one partner then to have remarried to someone else.
Maybe the church should not marry anyone who ever fornicated, and not just those who are divorced.
I think that a person who lived in a previous unmarried relationship and eventually married someone else is no different to a person who lived in a previous marriage relationship and eventually remarried to someone else.
Fortunately, Truth is not dependent on what you think, it is truth and it does not change.
Not one single Christian understood scripture to be saying what you deem to be true in the first 2/3 of Christianity. Not until Henry the VIII decided he would take the law into his own hands and kill the lawyer for the church and then murder his first and then second wife and remarry, do we see divorce in the church with remarriage following.
One who is validly married in the sight of God and the Church cannot break that covenant with God until death of either the husband or wife. if the marriage was invalid in the sight of God then it was never a marriage to begin with, and the relationship would need to be dissolved.
Fortunately, Truth is not dependent on what you think, it is truth and it does not change.
Not one single Christian understood scripture to be saying what you deem to be true in the first 2/3 of Christianity. Not until Henry the VIII decided he would take the law into his own hands and kill the lawyer for the church and then murder his first and then second wife and remarry, do we see divorce in the church with remarriage following.
One who is validly married in the sight of God and the Church cannot break that covenant with God until death of either the husband or wife. if the marriage was invalid in the sight of God then it was never a marriage to begin with, and the relationship would need to be dissolved.
peace, papist
How is a marriage established as valid in the sight of God, is it through the signing of a marriage certificate or is it through the sexual union?
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