Divorce

[Duckybill]

Seriously, what? Do you need a dictionary? How did he contradict himself?

This oughta be good.

mpok1519 wrote:

"No one is safe from delusion."

"No I'm pretty clear and level headed thankyou."

 

[PreachersWife2004]

mpok1519 wrote:

"No one is safe from delusion."

"No I'm pretty clear and level headed thankyou."

that's not a contradiction.

"No one is safe from getting hit by a car"

"Currently I am not hit by a car"

Those do not contradict each other. And not being safe from something doesn't mean it will definitely happen.

I was right. That was definitely something, Ducky. Your posts fascinate me. My husband does wonder what denomination you are, though...

 

[mpok1519]

How is that a contradiction?

 

[Steffenfield]

Hey Ducky, I was wondering if perhaps I could get a huge favor from you...

I've been thinking of writing an email to Kristin and asking her if she really knew what divorce means in God's big picture for her life.

I don't want to come across as being manipulative, threatening, using the bible to benefit myself, or attempting to be above her in any way.

She needs to know but I don't know how to put this into loving words for her to read.

I guess she's already seen a pastor that told her she deserved to be happy. I believe that was the free ticket she was hoping to hear from him and is now with a boyfriend.

Do you think perhaps you could think from time to time on what I might say?

I won't write her tonight, but I'm thinking perhaps tomorrow or the following day.

I would greatly appreciate this from you, Ducky.

Thanks ahead if you consider doing this for me.

 

[foodiepeep]

Just remember, Satan will send religious folks to tell you that divorce is ok. Divorce leads to adultery, nearly always.

Ducky- I wish you wouldn't say such things..it really doesn't help my guilt at all.

 

[Duckybill]

that's not a contradiction.

"No one is safe from getting hit by a car"

"Currently I am not hit by a car"

Those do not contradict each other. And not being safe from something doesn't mean it will definitely happen.

I was right. That was definitely something, Ducky. Your posts fascinate me. My husband does wonder what denomination you are, though...

That was quite predictable.

 

[JustMeSee]

This is one of the worst threads I have read in a very long time.

I pray that people recovering from violent marriages stay away from here.

Some people have no comprehension of how difficult divorce can be, nor do they exhibit compassion.

THIS IS SICKENING!

 

[JustMeSee]

Don't worry. Only a "FEW" would take my advice.

Are you aware in the slightest how destructive your words are?

In my honest opinion, you are not being a good ambassador of Christ. I suggest that you take a long hard look at how you are portraying yourself and Christ.

 

[Duckybill]

Hey Ducky, I was wondering if perhaps I could get a huge favor from you...

I've been thinking of writing an email to Kristin and asking her if she really knew what divorce means in God's big picture for her life.

I don't want to come across as being manipulative, threatening, using the bible to benefit myself, or attempting to be above her in any way.

She needs to know but I don't know how to put this into loving words for her to read.

I guess she's already seen a pastor that told her she deserved to be happy. I believe that was the free ticket she was hoping to hear from him and is now with a boyfriend.

Do you think perhaps you could think from time to time on what I might say?

I won't write her tonight, but I'm thinking perhaps tomorrow or the following day.

I would greatly appreciate this from you, Ducky.

Thanks ahead if you consider doing this for me.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

 

[peacechild4]

I think that stinks... staying alone because someone has gone off and done their thing and treats you any old way they feel like it.. GOD would never do that to us.. HE never leaves or forsakes us.. I would rather end it and live right with someone else.. then stay here and end me or do wrong things because I am so needy and struggling because of what has happened to me..

You have no idea how loving and freeing having a relationship with GOD is and how that HE loves on us and didn't come to judge us but to save us.. and the rules and laws GOD set are impossible for us to keep.. because if you break even one of them.. you have broken them all.. JESUS was the only one who could live perfectly and HE came for us who live imperfectly.. so that through HIM we could become the righteousness of GOD..

Rom 3:20 “Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.” NIV </SPAN>

That is impossible living.. GODS promises are not the way to heaven.. do you know that!!!!!!

JESUS is the only way to the FATHER.. It is by faith in HIM we are saved.. not by wrong or right doing..

 

[Duckybill]

Are you aware in the slightest how destructive your words are?

In my honest opinion, you are not being a good ambassador of Christ. I suggest that you take a long hard look at how you are portraying yourself and Christ.

Have you not read? :

Matthew 7:13-14 (NKJV)
13 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

 

[peacechild4]

Gee I get angry by people using the law to justify where they are coming from and what we "sinful" people should or should not be doing.. The law came to show us we need a Saviour and did not come to abolish the law but HE fullfilled it.. when someone fulfills something it is done with.. thus what JESUS said it is finished meant.. It is finished.. HIS grace is sufficient.. none of us a ditching out because we want this.. but rather it has happened to us.. and praise GOD there is hope.. JESUS took divorce on him.. and the curse of the law which is the punishment for people who divorced.. so therefore.. HE took both the sin and the punishment for the sin.. it is finished..

 

[peacechild4]

JESUS is the gate.. the only way to the FATHER.. so if we come through HIM.. faith... we are saved.. lock stock and barrel.. we are brought into the KINGDOM through the door which is JESUS...

"I am the gate, whoever enters through me will be saved." (NLT) John 10:9

 

[mpok1519]

I wonder how we're supposed to apply these metaphors to real life situations.

 

[scraparcs]

1 Corinthians 7:8-17

8Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. 9But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

10To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. 11But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

12To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. 13And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 14For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

15But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace. 16How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or, how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

17Nevertheless, each one should retain the place in life that the Lord assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.

What does this say to each of you? How would you interpret such instructions?

 

[mpok1519]

I would interpret it as perhaps good advice back in it's day but life has changed since then.

 

[Duckybill]

I would interpret it as perhaps good advice back in it's day but life has changed since then.

Only good advice? I thought it was God's Word.

 

[mpok1519]

It is. But guess what? God isn't limited only by one single book yknow. His word is also in the wind, mountains and sand. You anthropomorphize God as a very limited being who's only line of communication is three hundred pages written thousands of years ago.

 

[Jase]

Only good advice? I thought it was God's Word.

Nope, you seem to be confusing a book with Jesus Christ.

 

[Duckybill]

Nope, you seem to be confusing a book with Jesus Christ.

That presents a real problem.

Matthew 7:24-27 (NKJV)
24 "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."