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Like YOU said - the OP is passing judgment on the couple...
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And yet their is literally ZERO "penalty" for a married person breaking every other marriage vow within the confines of their marriage so long as they stay married and don't have sex with anyone else.
Sounds like a pretty great deal! Quote:
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I'm not sure what you're saying here. Can you clarify?
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Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment. Earlier you cited Luke 6:37 to apparently suggest that Christians shouldn't judge, but that simply isn't true. Although Luke 6:37 appears at first glance (without larger context) to say that Christians shouldn't judge, that isn't what it's actually saying when you study it in context. Christians are supposed to judge, but they must be careful to do so without hypocrisy, righteously, and with the proper motivation. We are also not called to judge unbelievers, but rather those who profess to be fellow Christians (ref. 1 Corinthians 5). This page may be helpful for you to understand Luke 6:37 in its proper context: http://www.letusreason.org/Pent44.htm |
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Think about all the various things that are included in marriage vows:
Love Honor Respect Forsaking all others (which includes NOT forsaking your spouse. Bible clearly commands to not deprive your spouse except by mutual consent). Etc, Etc...... Yet people can exist in loveless, respectless, sexless marriages forever, and many Christians would be fine with that so long as their was no divorce or infidelity. I have personally witnessed this. Two people who obviously hated eachother, but stayed together because "divorce is bad", and were "applauded" for "respecting their vows", despite being miserable people, and miserable to be around too. I'm sorry but I don't play BS games. I don't believe in doing things for appearances sake, and I don't believe that God looks favorably upon that at all. If you're going to tough it out and stay together....it means you're gonna stay together and WORK THINGS OUT. Staying together by sheer force of will where there is no love or desire to cultivate it and grow is a sham and certainly not Christ-like in anyway shape or form. And to somehow hold such people up as an example is a slap in the face to any honest hearted person.
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Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Christ calls us to follow Him and obey Him in every area, including our marriages. In fact, our marriages are supposed to reflect Christ's relationship with His bride, the church. Loveless, lifeless marriages are a foreign concept to such a requirement. I hope no one here would hold up such a sad "marriage" as a good example (except perhaps as a good example of what a marriage should NOT be like). |
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Why is the "don't screw anyone else" vow the only vow anyone seems to give a crap about? ALL of your vows are sacred!
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