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1 | Divorce for no sexual life ever - OK? | Matt 19:9 | Emmaus | 170985 | ||
Searcher, Scripture says that a husband and wife will "become one flesh." Where there is no consummation they do not "become one flesh" and there is no binding marriage unless both parties have agreed to this beforehand. A sacred or holy act, i.e. marriage, cannot be based on a sin (lie) of ommission, which the failure to dislose impotence is. Emmaus |
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2 | Divorce for no sexual life ever - OK? | Matt 19:9 | jlhetrick | 170998 | ||
Emmaus, I'm confident that you will reconsider your statements here after viewing them in light of my following comments. You wrote: "Scripture says that a husband and wife will "become one flesh." Where there is no consummation they do not "become one flesh" and there is no binding marriage unless both parties have agreed to this beforehand" This really is a short-sighted view. Illustration. a man and woman are married. After the ceremony they rush off to their honeymoon and the rest of their lives together. On the way to (where ever their going) they are in an accident. One of them is permenantly injured and never able to perform sexually for the other. Are they not married? Is it right before God for the healthy one to walk away from the vows and marry a healthy mate that can perform? You also wrote: "A sacred or holy act, i.e. marriage, cannot be based on a sin (lie) of ommission, which the failure to dislose impotence is." Can you point me to the scripture on this one please. I would venture to say that a great many marriages occur after both parties have been dishonest during their courtship prior to marriage. Does this mean that those of US who may have mislead our spouse before marriage on one issue or another, are not really married? Furthmore, there are many, many things about my wife that I did not learn until after we were married. In fact, I'm sure that there continues to be things about her (before me) that I have not yet learned. She has "omitted them" either intentionally, or unintentionally. Are we not really married? Pleas help me understand your position, Jeff |
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3 | Divorce for no sexual life ever - OK? | Matt 19:9 | Emmaus | 170999 | ||
Jeff, To marry one must be able to perform the primary duty of marriage with one's partner. If your hypthetical should take plce the parties may commit to stay together out of love, which would be wonderful, but hypotheticals do not trump the ordinary realities and especially not the real situation which started this thread, which I was addressing and for which I provided scripture when challanged by my friend Searcher. Emmaus |
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4 | Divorce for no sexual life ever - OK? | Matt 19:9 | jlhetrick | 171008 | ||
Emmaus, You wrote: "To marry one must be able to perform the primary duty of marriage with one's partner" I assume by saying "primary duty (singlurar)" that you are continue to refer to the act of sex. Where do you base your statement in scripture? It's not even a good argument my friend. And concerning my hypothetical, well, it's not really a hypothetical. It is a very true situation concerning a patient of mine. Remember. When you start with an original situation as in "which started this thread" and more light is shown on it from scripture; the logical thing to do is go with the revelation of scripture and not attempt to stick to original premise. I must assume that nana's original question was sincere. That is, is divorce for no sexual life ever ok. Answer from scripture; NO, it is not. The legitimacy of debate really ends there. Hope this helps, Jeff |
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5 | Divorce for no sexual life ever - OK? | Matt 19:9 | Emmaus | 171013 | ||
Jeff, There is no divorce when there is no true marriage, there is only a judgement of nullity, i.e. that a marriage never existed despite the appearance that one did exist. Ther is no debate because there is no legitimate marriage to be debated. I refer you to Kalos' post on the scriptual meaning of "one flesh" and its relationship to marriage. Emmaus |
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6 | Divorce for no sexual life ever - OK? | Matt 19:9 | jlhetrick | 171018 | ||
Hello Emmaus, Please refer to my post to kalos' post to address this post of yours:-) When attempting to apply this kind of legal argument to the issue, you miss an essential point. In the case of your post, the fraud could be based on anything, not only the issue of sex. If something else, then perhaps sex has already occured. If so, and there was never a marriage (legally) then the innocent one is not innocent having committed sexual immorality. Again, when we push further away from man's legal position, and draw closer to the clear teachings found in scripture; it is not that difficult an issue. Christ's love, Jeff |
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