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If the man does not truly love, honor and cherish his wife, he will lie, lay, steal and entrap her in a legal mess that destroys the lives of her children. With that in mind, the woman is better off knowing without a shadow of a doubt that she is appreciated. That takes time and careful consideration, not black and white decisions about legal setups.
posted by
Jenasis
on July 31, 2007 at 5:39 PM
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sin is in the eye of the definer -- and to some Christians, most everything
is sin.
They can take snippets from scripture and then create a sin from that when the passage itself really is nothing like they make it out to be.
they will lump all sorts of actions into the category of adultery, when basically adultery is really narrowly defined. it means covenant breaking -- mainly recognized as the marriage covenant -- and yet it could be more than that.
Old Testament heroes had more than one wife and many concubines. Apparently they were not committing adultery.
when Jesus said, what God has joined, let not man put asunder, I think he was talking about a basic "soul-bond" that exists without the ceremony of marriage. Marriage, if you think about it, was a necessity to make the man responsible for a family. Jesus talks about Moses "writ of divorce" -- this also was to protect the woman from a man up and leaving without responsiblity.
then he made the statement about "What god has joined." So many church marriages fail -- and that is because God has not joined them. They are mainly "of convenience" in one way or another.
the real marriage occurs without the ceremony.
posted by
Xeno-x
on July 24, 2007 at 9:14 AM
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Good discussion, Kooka. It's important to remember that the purpose for having a partner in life is that we may be happy.
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Jenasis
on July 23, 2007 at 10:21 AM
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