Benedicta00
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So, what is your interpratation of Matt 19:9?
"I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery."
3And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, and saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
4Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, Made them male and female? And he said:
5 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.
6 Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
7 They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put away?
8 He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.
Jesus teaches us from the beginning a lawful marriage can not be taken apart. A lawful marriage joined two ppl, a man and a woman together as one.
Fornication, where the parties are not lawfully married is the exception.
Unless you are a fornicator, one who is not lawfully married or one who has relations with someone with out the benifit of marrige, you are NOT free to marry.
Those who are lawfully married are not free to marry another person just becuase they have a bill of divorce.
Unfaithfulness between two who have been made one does not break this covenant, nothing does.
Tell me truthfully, every divorce the Orthodox church allows was due to unfaithfullness? Are you sure about that?
There are many divorcees that have come into your church, were they all divorced becuase of unfaithfullness?
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