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+Divorce and sin
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+
+:date: 2016-04-11T20:15:46
+:categories: faith
+:tags: blogcomment, ecumenism, Catholics, marriage, sin, sacrament
+
+(originally started as a comment on `the article on First
+Things`_).
+
+.. _`the article on First Things`:
+    http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/04/a-stubborn-givenness
+
+A thought: isn’t the one of the root of whole problem, that
+Catholics see the problem in “the second marriage”?
+
+I am not sure who started ignoring what seems to me like more
+obvious problem, which is the divorce itself. On one hand it
+seems to me more honest (and honoring the free will of spouses)
+to accept their decision as meaning what they meant it to mean.
+So, yes in my opinion, divorce is divorce. And yes it is the sin
+against the marriage (or the sacrament of marriage if you wish).
+
+I don't think it taking sin too lightly when we say that every
+sin could be forgiven to people (except for the sin of the Holy
+Spirit, I believe quite certainly that a divorce is not the one).
+So, I believe that even the sin of divorce can be forgiven to
+people, and I don't think agreeing with the Lord makes me taking
+sin too lightly. I lived through couple of divorces of my friends
+(as an elder of a Protestant congregation).
+
+I could see clearly that every of these divorces was result of a
+sin. In once case it was adultery, the other case was more
+complicated (I am still not sure what to think about the other
+case). However, in one case, I could see that the husband (who
+was guilty of adultery), really did repent. His former wife gave
+up on him and went away, and I haven't seen her much anymore (I
+think she moved out of the country), but he really went
+completely (and publicly) on his knees and repented from his sin
+of adultery which broke his marriage. He didn’t take the easy
+way, he spent next few years to really go through his wounds, his
+sins, and found a glorious recovery to be a full son of God in
+all His glory. After some more years, he started to date another
+girl from our church, and we all could fully rejoice when after
+couple of years of dating they got married. It has been couple of
+years ago, so I can testify they seem to be really working well
+out the blessing of their marriage.
+
+My point is that by replacing the sin of divorce with what I
+cannot actually see as a sin of remarriage (after all, despite
+their bad experience they are trying again to make marriage work
+for them; seems to me more like a glorious effort to do the right
+thing, than a sin), that is by replacing one with another,
+Catholics effectively made divorce into the second sin from which
+there is no way out. My brother after his former wife was gone
+would be effectively ban for the rest of his life from
+experiencing fullness of life, which for him includes marriage.
+Effectively, by banning some people for the rest of their life
+from sacraments, we would be devaluing marriage (or the Lord's
+Supper) as unnecessary for the fullness of the life with Christ
+or we are doubting promise of John 10:11.
+
+So, yes I do believe that there is a way out of every sin, even
+the most awful one. I believe there is a way to the foulness of
+life even for murderers, guards in concentration camps, and
+divorcees.