Where is your conviction? What do you hold true in your heart of hearts? I, a layman, have started posts which have been safely bypassed by many within the elect of God. You are called to task to do God's will, nothing more and nothing less. Marrying divorced people is SIN, quietly accepting homosexuality is leading those into Hell while holding their hand! Jesus said it when he mentioned the Pharisees keeping others who are thirsty away from the trough. Its hard, its demanding, its personally taxing, yet its what must be done. If you would do who must be done it would help your peers-and my embarrassingly fragile ego- to speak out here. But if you would remain silent, I pray for you as do the rest of the silent majority. We pray for vocal leadership, had I been single I'd be in seminaries or already a Priest-much to the chagrin of whatever Bishop found himself with me as his charge. Samuel would have been discounted if he had not been listened to by those God spoke to.
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Thank you Shaaz_99, its nice to know others feel as I do about some things. I direct everything on this forum to anyone, but hope those who lead congregations either point out where I got it wrong or they work in their area to fix what is wrong.shaaz_99 said:
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So if a woman is married, her husband cheats on her and then divorces her, despite her pleadings for the contrary, and someone then marries that woman....
Well that's sin. It's obviously her fault the divorce happened and she's a harlot. Is that what you're saying? That the woman becomes an adulteress through things completely out of her control?
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"I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery."
Emphasis mine.
I don't dispute that. Since Jesus himself, in Matthew19:9 said that marital unfaithfulness was justification that would not make one an adulterer. That is, if your spouse cheats on you, they do not fulfil their marital obligation, and as such, divorce and re-marriage is not a sin.
Emphasis mine.
I don't dispute that. Since Jesus himself, in Matthew19:9 said that marital unfaithfulness was justification that would not make one an adulterer. That is, if your spouse cheats on you, they do not fulfil their marital obligation, and as such, divorce and re-marriage is not a sin.
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Wow, didn't think you'd do it.AngelusSax said:
The emphasis should be on 'his' as the man is recognized as the marital leader whom the woman is to defer to, even in the case of infidelity. Your Bible's words not mine.
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Jesus was telling the scumbag men of his time that a woman not making the coffee at a certain time wasn't grounds for divorce.
But if we want to be Puritanical about things (are you a Puritan?), then I suppose women should become property once again.
Because women, you know, are inferior little harlots and are all evil and everything..... Which explains why Jesus spent so much time praising women who followed Him and chastizing the men who questioned those women...
But hey, men can commit adultery, and the woman should just take it. A woman should just get barefoot and pregnant and never complain, lest she be a harlot. Riiiight....
But if we want to be Puritanical about things (are you a Puritan?), then I suppose women should become property once again.
Because women, you know, are inferior little harlots and are all evil and everything..... Which explains why Jesus spent so much time praising women who followed Him and chastizing the men who questioned those women...
But hey, men can commit adultery, and the woman should just take it. A woman should just get barefoot and pregnant and never complain, lest she be a harlot. Riiiight....
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