Protestants View of Marriage

[zosa]

I’m a new Catholic, having joined this Easter and I thought I’d quickly share the ONE reason that made me interested. It has to do with the Protestant view of marriage. Perhaps the correct way to phrase it is the Protestant view of divorce, or the permissiveness of it.

I attended my first Catholic wedding in April 2008, a few months after my father died. My father was married and divored 6 times and I was BLOWN AWAY by what the priest said about marriage, it’s holiness and how it should be permanent. I believe that day and the amazing message was more important to me than the bride. It led me to start attending Catholic churches to see what it was all about.

I thought of how different my life would have been had the six different Protestant ministers who married my father six different times had checked on his readiness, his past or something. They did nothing of the sort. In the Protestant view of things, I guess it’s better to “marry” than to continue to live together in sin.

I wish my father had been Catholic. I doubt he could have gotten six annulments

How my life would have been different and much better if Protestant churches had a higher standard when marrying people.

 

[PILY_MX]

Hey,

Sorry about you Dad… must have been hard…

I’m glad you know the truth about marriage… because you will experience true love not just many loves.

 

[JonNC]

I’m a new Catholic, having joined this Easter and I thought I’d quickly share the ONE reason that made me interested. It has to do with the Protestant view of marriage. Perhaps the correct way to phrase it is the Protestant view of divorce, or the permissiveness of it.

I attended my first Catholic wedding in April 2008, a few months after my father died. My father was married and divored 6 times and I was BLOWN AWAY by what the priest said about marriage, it’s holiness and how it should be permanent. I believe that day and the amazing message was more important to me than the bride. It led me to start attending Catholic churches to see what it was all about.

I thought of how different my life would have been had the six different Protestant ministers who married my father six different times had checked on his readiness, his past or something. They did nothing of the sort. In the Protestant view of things, I guess it’s better to “marry” than to continue to live together in sin.

I wish my father had been Catholic. I doubt he could have gotten six annulments

How my life would have been different and much better if Protestant churches had a higher standard when marrying people.

As a Lutheran, I share your concern about the lax view regarding marriage. As a teacher, I see the effects of divorce everyday. I pray God’s grace and peace for you in your joining the Catholic Church. I’ll leave you with a statement from the LCMS about marriage and divorce.
74.125.47.132/custom?q=cache:TY4FyQIxvtYJ:www.lcms.org/graphics/assets/media/CTCR/Divorce_Remarriage1.pdf+divorce&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=google-coop-np

Divorce and Remarriage in the Old Testament
The Christian response to the problem of divorce and remarriage must begin where Christ Himself began, with the institution of marriage. The weight of Jesus’ response to contemporary questions concerning divorce and remarriage rested not on what may or may not be justifiable reasons for dissolving the marital union, but on the origin of marriage in creation. The principle “What God has joined together let not man put asunder” holds true according to the Scriptures “from the beginning,” when the Creator “made them male and female” (Gen. 1:27) and said, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh” (Gen. 2:24). At a time when divorce was commonplace and legitimized even on Biblical grounds (Deuteronomy 24), Jesus taught “but from the beginning it was not so” (Matt. 19:8). Christians, therefore, look first to God’s original intent for the estate of marriage and seek to know why it is that God wills this union to remain permanently inviolate.

Jon

 

[wanner47]

As a Lutheran, I share your concern about the lax view regarding marriage. As a teacher, I see the effects of divorce everyday. I pray God’s grace and peace for you in your joining the Catholic Church. I’ll leave you with a statement from the LCMS about marriage and divorce.
74.125.47.132/custom?q=cache:TY4FyQIxvtYJ:www.lcms.org/graphics/assets/media/CTCR/Divorce_Remarriage1.pdf+divorce&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=google-coop-np

Jon

I notice that this document states Jesus permitted divorce in the case of adultery. However, this is based on a mistranslation and is not the case.

catholic.com/thisrock/2000/0007bt.asp

 

[JonNC]

I notice that this document states Jesus permitted divorce in the case of adultery. However, this is based on a mistranslation and is not the case.

catholic.com/thisrock/2000/0007bt.asp

Thanks,
I’ll check into what you say here.

Jon

 

[Dokimas]

I’m a new Catholic, having joined this Easter and I thought I’d quickly share the ONE reason that made me interested. It has to do with the Protestant view of marriage. Perhaps the correct way to phrase it is the Protestant view of divorce, or the permissiveness of it.

I attended my first Catholic wedding in April 2008, a few months after my father died. My father was married and divored 6 times and I was BLOWN AWAY by what the priest said about marriage, it’s holiness and how it should be permanent. I believe that day and the amazing message was more important to me than the bride. It led me to start attending Catholic churches to see what it was all about.

I thought of how different my life would have been had the six different Protestant ministers who married my father six different times had checked on his readiness, his past or something. They did nothing of the sort. In the Protestant view of things, I guess it’s better to “marry” than to continue to live together in sin.

I wish my father had been Catholic. I doubt he could have gotten six annulments

How my life would have been different and much better if Protestant churches had a higher standard when marrying people.

I know people who were Catholics when they got married and divorced. Of course, most of them could not get remarried in the Catholic Church.​

Jesus was against divorce except for unfaithfulness (adultery). Too bad we don’t follow what Jesus says more often and more closely. It would protect us from our sinful tendencies.

 

[Dokimas]

I notice that this document states Jesus permitted divorce in the case of adultery. However, this is based on a mistranslation and is not the case.

catholic.com/thisrock/2000/0007bt.asp

Matthew 5:32 is similar to Matthew 19:9.​

Notice: adultery doesn’t seem to happen until the divorced person gets remarriaged.​

In 1 Corinthians 7, Paul teaches about divorce. He seems to say a divorced person should stay unmarried.