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sorry sir, i asked here because i know here will be much helpful than facebook.
I think that the issue here is dishonesty, not “cheating” as in adultery. I agree with you that cultural norms have no moral weight in and of themselves, but people reasonably rely on them. If you’re going to adhere to the older norms (which may well be better), I do think you need to make that clear. If someone makes a foreseeable assumption and you don’t bother to disabuse them of that when you easily could, I do think that’s at least a cousin of dishonesty.The official Church view is that if you’re not married in the eyes of the Church, then you’re free to go date and marry whoever
I get that you’re not Catholic, but I dont think you should be giving this advice on a Catholic forum. If the OP is Catholic, and the story is true, he’ll almost certainly need to confess to a priest.So if your story is true, pray to G-d. Only He will hear your prayers, don’t go to a Priest, don’t see a Pastor
I haven’t said anything any different through the whole thread. I said, don’t lie. The lie is the sin. Not the cheating.But when you promise to date only one person and break it by dating without telling your partner, you’re sinning. It’s not adultery, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to do that. If someone wants to date around, they simply just have to inform their partner before doing so…or break up. Simple!
Because he said he made her do things. In the English language, that could mean he forced her to do something she didn’t want to do.Well, maybe so. I don’t get why people are flipping out over this though, and someone even asked if you rapped her (not sure if you noted that, you should respond though and clarify); as to why they’d ever ask that, its beyond me.
I think this is outside the scope of the discussion here. There are a million threads and essays on the sacrament of confession. I don’t really want to re-litigate it here.You need to understand where I’m coming from though, we believe that there is absolutely no intermediary between G-d and man, since G-d isn’t a man. Let him decide for himself, but he honestly needs to speak with G-d. What can a Priest do? Does he really have more connection to G-d? Can he really annul sin? I thought your faith said only Jesus could? When did the Church decide that a Priest could? I don’t mean to ask this in an insulting manner, but out of pure curiosity
The cheating is technically the lie though. Unless you’re using cheating and adultery interchangeably.I do think anyone adhering to the old rules of “if you’re not engaged, there’s no promise of exclusivity” should at least make that clear, since most people are going to make a pretty understandable assumption that they’re in an exclusive thing at a certain point.
I was simply responding to this. I don’t see why you’re irritated with me over that, lol.So I’m not sure why you felt it was necessary to make this point to me
You’re asking me to explain a Catholic belief while simultaneously asking me to base the argument on a fundamentally un-Catholic assumption: Old Testament or bust. Of course I can’t do it. It would be like me asking you to justify Jewish practice without drawing on any Jewish sources. You’re not asking a coherent question.Ok, you could be a little less nicer next time and call me something worse than a “goofball” (sarcasm not intended). I asked you a serious question though which you failed to respond, because if it isn’t in Tanakh, stay away from it. I will maybe make another thread for this issue. My question though: why can’t he go directly to G-d? What teaching are you talking of? How can man hold to keys to forgiveness? Assuming this is entirely New Testament then.
You’re basically asking “why Christianity?” If that’s really your question, you should probably make your own thread, because it’s way beyond what we’re talking about here.I feel my questions deserves a response and to be taken seriously, after all, you’re basing your whole life on something which can’t be found in Tanakh is a serious matter (sorry, my opinion). Again, I don’t mean to sound rude or anything, it’s just an honest question