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1 | Annulment equates to Biblical divorce? | 1 Cor 7:15 | Jensen | 39255 | ||
Dear kalos....Thanks again for making me reconsider an opinion I hold. (You do seem to do that on occasion.) I always thought that the word "divorce" as used by Jesus meant a separation of a couple that were bonded together before God in a temple (church) ceremony that asked God to bless them in their marriage (“…what God has brought together…”.) So…My Bible influenced thinking has always been that the divorce of a couple who were married in a civil ceremony was not a divorce at all since there was no marriage in the first place. But if the Greeks were meant to be included by Jesus as I infer from your earlier post……Well I have some thinking to do :-) Does a contemporary annulment (church divorce) then not always equate to a Biblical divorce as I have always believed? AND; Would a contemporary civil marriage, where God is not asked to bless the couple, be a Biblical marriage anyway subject to divorce for only the two reasons, which I have never believed? God Bless….Jensen |
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2 | Annulment equates to Biblical divorce? | 1 Cor 7:15 | Rainbow Maker | 39268 | ||
1 Matt 5:31 "It was said, 'Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce'(apostasion a certificate of divorce ); compared with 2 Matt 5:32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces(apoluô which means to set free,or to release.) his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. The dictionary meanings here are not terribly useful. Chôrizô is the word used in the Corinthians passage meaning to separate or divide. The Corinthians passage is more contemporary than the Gospel and we find it in the context of the lived reality of the Christian experience. There seem to be a variety of graduated meanings for divorce whereas an annulment from the Latin ad plus nullus and Funk and wagnalls dictionary(1981, page 26) means to put an end to, especially in the case of marriage. My simple understanding of divorce has come to me while I was sojourning in the Catholic Church. On the one hand while Catholics may obtain a civil divorce they are still considered to be married and have in fact obtained just a legal separation. In order for one or both to remarry other people they must go to the Marriage tribunal and provide witnesses from when they first married in order to prove that theirs was a non sacramental union. They must prove either that one or both of them were not practicing catholics at the time or that some other anomally was preexisting which should have made marriage impossible. Everyone can get a civil divorce at some cost though not everyone who desires one can get their marriage annulled. For some of my Catholic friends an adulterous/bigamus civil marriage or marriage in another church was what they had to settle for in absentia adnullus. This combined with the knowledge that God can forgive anything if we ask forgiveness. It is my belief that an Annulment is more than a Biblical divorce since in order for anyone to remarry they must be in the state as if they never were married to begin with. The Corinthian case is a very good pointer towards the fact that our current social conditions, whatever they are, in whatever country ought to bring us to do as they did and to examen the circumstances. lets think about: - 1 Cor 7:17 Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this manner let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches. 1 Cor 7:18 Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised. 1 Cor 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God. Rainbow Maker |
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