{"id":3300,"date":"2015-10-04T07:01:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2015-10-04T07:05:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T14:05:28","slug":"mr-pope-marriage-is-not-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2015\/mr-pope-marriage-is-not-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Pope, Marriage Is Not Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How to better minister to Catholic families experiencing separation, divorce and other problems when the church\u2019s teaching holds that marriage is forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alignrightsmall\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2015\/10\/04\/pope-francis-asserts-marriage-forever-start-family-meeting\/73328462\/\">Pope Francis asserts marriage is forever at start of family meeting<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Going by engagement and wedding announcements I&#8217;ve seen over the years, many Christians <em>also<\/em> believe that marriage is forever. Even plenty of Mennonites hold that view.<\/p>\n<p>If that belief has a Biblical foundation, I don&#8217;t know what it is. Do you? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This post&#8217;s title rests primarily on this Biblical foundation (presented in the New King James Version):<\/p>\n<div class=\"facebook\" style=\"width:50%\">&#8220;For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband&#8221; (Romans 7:2).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221; (1 Corinthians 7:39).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So, no, <strong>I do not believe marriage is forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But I admit that putting it on an engagement announcement or on a joint tombstone has a reassuring, even romantic, feel to it.<\/p>\n<p>In closing, some related stuff I wrote longer ago:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1.2em; margin-bottom:0\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/clp\/youth\/12-298.html\">Marriage and Divorce<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/writings\/marriage-issues-part-1.html\">What the Bible Says about Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/writings\/marriage2.html\">What Is Marriage and for Whom?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/clp\/youth\/5-200.html\">The Christian and Marriage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened to &#8217;til death do us part&#8217;?<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[537],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","tag-marriage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Re","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}