adultery and church

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A friend and I were discussing the issue of adultry and the Catholic church. We both did not know if there was adultry if you could continue to go to church after confessing your sin or just what the church would allow that person to continue with.

-- d (dkshock@aol.com), April 01, 2001

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Response to adultry and church

I'm pretty sure that if you go confess your adultery and truly are repentant (ie plan to never do it again) the priest will give you absolution and you can go receive Eucharist. The Church does not excommunicate people readily, if that's what you're asking.

-Hannah

-- Hannah (archiegoodwin_and_nerowolfe@hotmail.com), April 01, 2001.


Response to adultry and church

Hannah is correct. The key is ending any temptation to continue with the adultry.

-- Br. Rich SFO (repsfo@prodigy.net), April 01, 2001.

Response to adultry and church

Well Hannah and friend to answer your question adultry is wrong. It was wrong then and is still wrong now. In the Holy Bible (King James Version) I am not exactly sure about what chapter and verse it plainly states that anyone caught in an adulterous situation was cursed or prehaps even killed. Now you can't get any more plain then that. It is wrong. If you just reflect on past relationships/ marriages that were plagued with this serious sin and think about the effect that it had on the two participators and the families pulled into this you should see that it was wrong. Nothing good came out of it. It is a sin and the temptaion cannot go away by doing the sin. First of all no one should be tempted to have an affair with someone elses spouse/mate/significant other. What you really shpuld be doing is consentrating on his/her relationship and how to keep the fire burning high within that relationship. Adultry is and enemy. just think of it this way, Do you want me to fool around with your man...... Oh yeah I'm a women and I like men so I can only fool around with a man. I'm not into that nasty stuff.

-- Joycelyn Williams (doty1979@yahoo.com), January 11, 2003.

Response to adultry and church

Well Hannah and friend to answer your question adultry is wrong. It was wrong then and is still wrong now. In the Holy Bible (King James Version) I am not exactly sure about what chapter and verse it plainly states that anyone caught in an adulterous situation was cursed or prehaps even killed. Now you can't get any more plain then that. It is wrong. If you just reflect on past relationships/ marriages that were plagued with this serious sin and think about the effect that it had on the two participators and the families pulled into this you should see that it was wrong. Nothing good came out of it. It is a sin and the temptaion cannot go away by doing the sin. First of all no one should be tempted to have an affair with someone elses spouse/mate/significant other. What you really should be doing is consentrating on his/her relationship and how to keep the fire burning high within that relationship. Adultry is an enemy. just think of it this way, Do you want me to fool around with your man...... Oh yeah I'm a women and I like men so I can only fool around with a man. I'm not into that nasty stuff.

-- Joycelyn Williams (doty1979@yahoo.com), January 11, 2003.

Response to adultry and church

You can continue to go to church even before confessing your sin, but you cannot receive the Eucharist until you have confessed your sin, with a firm intention of not committing the sin again. once you have done that, you are again in a state of sanctifying grace, and in full communion with the Church.

-- Paul (PaulCyp@cox.net), January 11, 2003.


Response to adultry and church

I read in the Bible that if your spouse "abandons" you, like walking out on you, you are now longer married. Yes, you still have to do the legal process, but in the eyes of God, your spouse has abandoned their duties as a spouse and they are no longer your spouse. If you and the spouse remain partners after the adultry, you have to completely forgiving of their sin in order for you marriage to progress.

-- kendyll king (KEAMBE@HOTMAIL.COM), April 10, 2003.

Response to adultry and church

Kendyll, if you read those things in a "bible," it was not a Jewish/Christian Bible (Old and New Testaments). JFG

-- J. F. Gecik (jfgecik@hotmail.com), April 14, 2003.

Response to adultry and church

yes it was a Christian Bible. I wouldn't read anything but.

-- k.king (keambe@hotmail.com), July 21, 2003.

Response to adultry and church

OK, Kendyll, if it was a legitimate Bible, then you clearly misinterpreted the words it contains, because the Bible does not teach what you claimed. If you disagree with me, please quote the verse(s) that you think support you.

-- J. F. Gecik (jfgecik@hotmail.com), July 21, 2003.

read KJV Matthew 5: 27-32 1 Corinthians 7:10-11-27-28 Exodus 21:14 The 7th Commandment Read it for your self don't take anyone but God's word for it. Pray and study the Lord will direct your path.

-- bobby (believethenpray@aol.com), February 13, 2004.


I am sorry, but your references do nto exaclty support you, only 1 COrnintuains is even relevant... and I beleive the Catholci take on this is that this described annulment, of a non sanctified marriage. Yhe rest doesnt orove anythign you said.Unless your King James Bible is agreivously misprinted.

Mathew 5: 27-32 (KJV)

27. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28. But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 29. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 31. It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 32. But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

1 Corinthians chapter 7:10-17 (KJV)

10. And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11. But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. 12. But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 13. And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. 14. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. 15. But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. 16. For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? 17. But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

exodus 21:14 (KJV) 14. But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), February 13, 2004.


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