How to better minister to Catholic families experiencing separation, divorce and other problems when the church’s teaching holds that marriage is forever.
Pope Francis asserts marriage is forever at start of family meeting
Going by engagement and wedding announcements I’ve seen over the years, many Christians also believe that marriage is forever. Even plenty of Mennonites hold that view.
If that belief has a Biblical foundation, I don’t know what it is. Do you?
This post’s title rests primarily on this Biblical foundation (presented in the New King James Version):
“A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 7:39).
So, no, I do not believe marriage is forever.
But I admit that putting it on an engagement announcement or on a joint tombstone has a reassuring, even romantic, feel to it.
In closing, some related stuff I wrote longer ago: