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Originally posted by aephi alum
But if a couple divorces and then one of them dies, the other is free to remarry, right? In the eyes of the Church they'd be a widow/widower, right? You can't reconcile with an ex who's dead.
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That's why you kill your husband before you divorce him...
JUST KIDDING!!!! DAYUM!!!!
Anyhoo...
Wasn't Mary Magdelene a prostitute that was going to be stoned to death by many a man for whatever reason...
Then the men asked Jesus if he believed in capital punishment and Jesus said, "let no one without sin, cast the first stone..." because He knew that each an everyone of those men slept with Mary Magdelene... Then Jesus told her, "go and sin no more"...
The fact is, fornication is wrong... But in the Bible, there is a whole bunch of folks fornicating...
I think what is wrong with it is the "willy nilly" masterbationist jack-hammering only to suffice a need that can never be fullfilled--if you catch my drift...
See, if your body is your temple and your spirit resides in it... And the sexual organs that respond to intimacy, called errogenous zones, allows any old body to touch it and stimulate it as if it were an emotion being tossed to and fro in the wind of a storm, then it would seem that the reason for why sleeping around before you are formally committed to someone causes a kind of pain so damaging that one is in fact feels like he or she is in Hell...
In fact sex can become an addiction by power, by conquest, by out-manuvering your opponent, etc. And I do not think that is what God intended with sex--aside from it's procreative ability...
It is meant to share your innermost being, your essence, your sacred spot, your secrets, your hurts, your pains. Not to BE YOUR GOD--but to TOUCH THE VERY ESSENCE OF YOUR SPIRIT--some say your Godhead... That's why is knocks the socks off of some folks...
Wielding such power by throwing caution to the wind is the part I think that God wants folks to refrain from...
And the fact that there are no other gods before Him...
I think organized religions made it such that to repress women in such a way because it was believed that life comes ONLY from a woman... Yes, a woman carries out a pregnancy--but it takes 2 to tango... What got left over from years back was to suppress the very nature of woman--her sexual power making her in a subservient life--much like Mary Magdelene was before Jesus told her to stop sinning... Why? Because it would get her killed if she chose not to stop...
Does marriage cause one to stop sexual sinning? NO...
A marriage contract is a STATE INSTITUTION by the Federal Government--i.e. you need a license to be married... Otherwise, same-sex marriages would not be a big issue if it was only a religious affiliation...
However, the STATE does want to make the marriage institution more contractually binding... Meaning, think about who you are saying your "I do's" to before you marry them, are they worth it???
So, is divorce wrong? Probably not in domestically violent situations or situations that could escalate to that or in cases of straight up abandonment. Boredom of the other person and growing apart... I personally have a hard time believing... But given that I get bored with my husband sometimes, it doesn't seem too difficult to see that logic...
So, in a roundabout way, if you are going to have plenty of sex, do it right and always protect yourself at all times... But if you need that commitment marriage contract to have all the bucket wild sex you've always sought, think again...