Subject: Can a woman divorce man: Ongoing porn? |
Bible Note: Kind of weird that I am responding to my own post… But I feel I need to address my errant thinking so forgive me for dredging up old posts and I pray that the person to whom this was originally addressed has somehow found peace with the situation. I have had a change of thought or heart concerning this matter. Viewing pornography and the effects it can have on one whose spouse does it is indeed dreadful. Is it grounds for divorce? Maybe so because of what it actually is and how Scripture speaks of it, but reconciliation is what should be desired first and foremost above contemplating separation. The cure to this dreadful sickness or addiction or attraction, however we may refer to it, remains the same and that is found in our Lord and being faithful to Him. With that said, regarding the Scripture from Matthew that was referenced throughout this thread, I think my error was in separating the physical from the thought for fear of adding to the Word something that wasn’t there. When in fact, I have come to believe that one is just as detrimental as the other and therefore can be viewed from the same perspective. I hope I was able to explain my view on this and apologize to any I may have offended in the previous posts. Always learning and so thankful to be doing so. Stand in His grace, WOS 2Corinthians 5:17-19: 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. |