annulment

[Lionheart_03]

i have to do a presentation about annulment and my professor want it to have some biblical verses/passages which shows about this and discuss it...

is there any biblical verses you can give me? and your views about annulment can do some help also... tnx in advance!!

 

[Prakk]

There is no precident for or concept of annullment in scripture.

 

[Buzz Dixon]

Traditionally annulments were for Catholics who had not consumated their marriage; even today in civil courts an annulment may be greanted if the marriage hasn't been consumated.

The Catholic Church has loosened up quite a bit on annulments to the point where one might have several children and still be granted an annulment. What the difference is between a divorce and an annulment to them is, I don't know precisely.

 

[Prakk]

The problem of course being how marriage is defined. There is a pervasive error that if sexual relations do not occur, marriage has not "happened." This flies in the face of the circumstances surrounding the most important marriage in scripture, that of Mary and Joseph. Betrothal per the law was marriage. The fact that the marriage was "unconsumated" meant nothing other than it hadn't been consumated, it was nonetheless real. Joseph sought to divorce Mary because divorce was the tool by which you ended a marriage, otherwise he would have sought to "annul" it. One need only check Old Testament law on the subject to find that a woman was guilty of fornication if not betrothed, but adultery if she was betrothed. The penalty was death.

Annulment is an unbiblical concept. There is no such thing.

Hugh McBryde