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1 | Do any false pretenses allow allumnet? | Matt 19:12 | Searcher56 | 56071 | ||
Emmaus, can any (all) marriage contracts that have false pretenses be annulled without violating Scripture? Searcher | ||||||
2 | Do any false pretenses allow allumnet? | Matt 19:12 | Emmaus | 56118 | ||
Searcher, Good question. I am not a secular or canon lawyer but I have some real practical working knowledge of both areas and particularly in the area of contract law because it is large part of the insurance claims buisness in which I am employed. Contracts that are entered into fraudulently or without the ability to fulfill the obligations of the contract are never real contracts and therefore null and void. A declaration of nullity is merely the legal statement of the fact that the contract was null and not a legal contract. Regarding marriage, there are a number of such impediments. Most common are impotence, mental incompetence, one party is already married, lack of lawful age to engage in a contract, coercion or lack of free consent, i.e. "shotgun marriages", contracting marriage without the intent or with known inability to have children without the other party being informed. Inability to have children on the part of one party or the other that was unknown and discovered only after the marriage is not a grounds for annulment. Can any true contact be based on false pretenses (a lie or lies)pertaining to the basic elements of the contract? Emmaus |
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3 | Do any false pretenses allow allumnet? | Matt 19:12 | Searcher56 | 56156 | ||
Is there a difference when someone doesn't say anything, as in this case ... or directly lies? | ||||||
4 | Do any false pretenses allow allumnet? | Matt 19:12 | Emmaus | 56178 | ||
Searcher, I would say that the intentional ommission of significant fact that is otherwise taken for granted is not much different than a direct lie. The difference between a sin of ommission and a sin of commission. When one swears in court to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, do they lie when they leave out a significant piece of testimony that gives a misleading or false impression and by ommission bearing false witness? When our testimony can aquit the innocent or convict the guilty and we are silent is that sin? Emmaus |
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