The Church doesn’t “allow” it as if it’s something that is done to a Marriage. It not, it’s simply a declaration after investigation that no Marriage actually took place.
I don’t see how effectively it is different from divorce. A couple could have lived together for years, have kids etc and they can get an annulment because the church says they were never really married? So if a Catholic gets married in a Protestant church without a dispensation they can get an annulment but two Protestants can’t? This strikes me as trying to go by the letter rather than the spirit of God’s will.
divorce is the ending of a Valid marrage, Annulment is the declaring of a marriage to not have been a valid one. There is a strong diffrence theologically.
oh and two protestants can’t get their marriage declared invalid by the Church for obvious reasons… THEY’RE PROTESTANTS!!!
However if a Protestant who was previously married wants to marry a Catholic he would need an annulment from his Protestant marriage. The marriage of a Protestant to a Protestant would be declared valid, but a Protestant to a Catholic, without a dispensation would be invalid. This is assuming that the disparity of form would be the only grounds for annulment.oh and two protestants can’t get their marriage declared invalid by the Church for obvious reasons… THEY’RE PROTESTANTS!!!
if you want to talk about cop outs(which the catholic ones aren’t) why not lets have a little discussion about how Sola Scriptura denies Paul’s own assertion that “the church is the pillar and bullwork of truth”. Or about Sola Fide, when the bible says in James Chapter 2 that “faith without works is dead”.
What about Romans 4:1 and following? or Ephesians chapter 2? the whole thing?
Then someone has no idea what it means to make a covenant before God, and should abstain from marriage for him/herself, because they have no idea how to be a good spouse
I don’t see any contradiction… A protestant to protestant marriage is called a Civil marriage, it is NOT a sacramental marriage. The catholic would enter into a Civil marriage. Therefore Sacra mentally the marriage is invalid(unless dispensation is granted which makes the civil marriage a sacramental marriage), which the point you seem to be missing. Sacramentally the Catholic is entering a state of sin.
Which is the point… As a Catholic I believe that the covernant before God can only be made within a Catholic Church. That is why we have the “Annulment” belief. We believe Any marriage not made within the catholic church is not a Covernant before go. That is what we believe.
What a load of rubbish!
Well, the church is helping them in the commission of a sin, what am I supposed to do? They help them make an oath a lie…
Actually you are the one sinning by lying!
As a non-Catholic I believe an annulment is indeed contradictory to Scripture.
A Catholic cannot get Married by a Protestant minister without a dispensation. That’s way it can be declared Null and Void. The Marriage between two Protestants could also be found Null and Void if the Protestant faith required or prohibited something for a valid Marriage and that did or did not happen. People get a Valid Marriage by religious standards confused with a legal Marriage by civil standards. A Marriage attempt could be declared Null and Viod by legal standards also if something required by civil law didn’t happen as required.
Divorce and re-marriage is strictly prohibited in the Scriptures but yet many if not most Protestant Communities allow it without a second thought? Annulment however is mentioned but not expanded on in the Scriptures (Matt 19:9) to the same extent divorce and re-marriage is several times. (Matt 19:1-9, Matt 5:32, Mk 10:11-12, Luke 16:18, Rom 7:2-3, 1 Cor 7:10) The Greek word used in Matt 19:9 and 5:32 means an illegal or invalid marriage.
A valid Marriage between two Baptized Protestants who are capable of Marriage is always seen by the Catholic Church as a Sacrament.
Except of course the one Church established by Christ and given His authority.