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[13] he answered by reaffirming God's will as stated in Genesis, [14] that in marriage husband and wife are made "one flesh", and what God has united man must not separate. [15] [12]: pp.300–301 There is no evidence that Jesus himself ever married, and considerable evidence that he remained single.
The Orthodox Church traditionally states that "it blesses the first marriage, performs the second, tolerates the third, and forbids the fourth". Widowed spouses are permitted to remarry without repercussion and their second marriage is considered just as blessed as the first. One exception to this rule is the clergy and their wives.
Short title: God's prohibition of the marriage with a deceased wife's sister, Leviticus XVIII, 6: Author: Edward Bouverie Pusey: Conversion program: Google Books PDF Converter (rel 2 28/7/09)
This can be called a marriage made in hell because religion and the power of government, when combined, distort each other: religions gain coercive power from the ruler and rulers use religion to ...
The great majority of Christian denominations affirm that marriage is intended as a lifelong covenant, but vary in their response to its dissolubility through divorce. The Catholic Church treats all consummated sacramental marriages as permanent during the life of the spouses, and therefore does not allow remarriage after a divorce if the other spouse still lives and the marriage has not been ...
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]
For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does." [26] As "one flesh," the husband and wife share this right and privilege; the New Testament does not portray intimacy as something held in reserve by each spouse to be shared on ...
Lewis's diverse sources for this work include the works of St. Augustine, Dante Aligheri, John Milton, John Bunyan, Emanuel Swedenborg and Lewis Carroll, as well as an American science fiction author whose name Lewis had forgotten but whose work he mentions in his preface (The Man Who Lived Backwards). [1]