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diff --git a/divorce_and_sin.rst b/divorce_and_sin.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e73d76 --- /dev/null +++ b/divorce_and_sin.rst @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +Divorce and sin +############### + +: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. |