The question about marriage and relationship with God

[Stepinac]

Why sacraments like baptism (or confession) are not like the sacrament of marriage. Whenever someone is baptized, that scalp “marriage” with the Lord. If we look at the scriptures that speak of marriage, we will see the passage “What God Has Put Together Let No Man Put Asunder” (Matthew 19: 6). Whenever we fall into some (mortal) sin, we are by definition separated from Him and are no longer “His spouses.”

Now, my question is: why can’t a man divorce from his spouse no matter what he/she is (good or bad), and God can divorce from us whenever he wants (usually when we fall).

Whenever someone makes a promise in a wedding ceremony, it says “xy, I take you for my husband/wife in both good and evil”, so does God (probably) speak to us at baptism. If one is baptized, that is, entered into a “spiritual marriage” with God, why don’t the words “What God Has Put Together Let No Man Put Asunder” (Matthew 19: 6) apply to the baptized person, in other words, what God has joined together with himself, nothing, not even the greatest sin, takes him away from His personal relationship with God (Romans 8:35, 38-39).

When anyone sins against us, especially the spouse, we (according to the gospel) are obliged to forgive that person 70x7, and whenever we (mortally) sin against God, then God do divorce from us, throws us out on the street and forbids us access to Him. On the contrary, whenever we return to God and embrace Him full of repentance seeking forgiveness, then we commit sacrilege, because we have not legally returned/reconciled with Him, and we did not have the money to pay our lawyers to reunite us, because part of the money took spouse, i.e. God, and the rest our parents forbade us. Why can’t I divorce from my wife (who I don’t have yet; I’m not an adult and I dont have a girlfriend yet), give her bruises on her eye and throw her out on the street whenever I find informations, for example, that my wife participated in a gossip party with friends? Or If she would approached me, hugged me and asked for forgiveness without initiating court proceedings, why couldn’t I just legally take my whip out of the closet and whipping her to blood from head to toe for “unworthy touching and approaching to me (i.e. “sacrilege” against me)" and eventually (again) throw her out on the street where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth?

 

[Stepinac]

Confession is described in this text as a court of law and confessors as lawyers. Money is a symbol of ability, opportunity and freedom to go to confession; “rich” are those who have great circumstances for going to confession: they have devout Catholic parents who will not either force or forbid them to go to confession, they have more priests in the parish with whom they can confess at any time; and “poor” are those who have difficult or even impossible conditions for confession: they have parents who are not (active) “believers” and forbid their children to go to confession regularly because of “exaggeration in the faith”, because of the parents’ decision, they are afraid that if the parents find out that they have been to confession, they may be banned from going to Holy Mass, in their parish there are no other priests who would confess them, but there is only one pastor who either does not have time to confess them, or they no longer like confessions with the pastor and want go to confession in another parish, so they have to rate the perfect opportunity for confession which are unfortunately very rare most often for Christmas, Easter and maybe the Assumption. I am the unfortunate one who belongs to the category of “poor”, mortal sorrow overwhelms me that I am not allowed to take communion, no matter how much he repents for his sins (perfect repentance cannot be used in my case), I can’t understand why it is a sin to take communion without the state of grace, I consider this prohibition as if God hates me, because if God loved me he would either not forbid me from communion or he would give me that “plan B” how to reach His forgiveness and state of grace and free me from my oppressors (i.e. my parents) as God succeeded in freeing the Jews from various bondage. Therefore, these cruel images from the text are my image of God and His prohibitions/restrictions, and I concluded “if he can do this, I can do this too”

 

[TheLittleLady]

God can divorce from us whenever he wants (usually when we fall).

Um, God does not ever “divorce from us”. He will not.

Baptism marks the soul with an eternal mark.

We have free will, we can choose to leave our God, we can choose an eternity in hell, and we will still be marked as Christian.

 

[TheLittleLady]

they are afraid that if the parents find out

Children, minors, those who have disabilities and are not independent, God understands. God is not sitting up on a cloud just waiting to catch them in a sin they cannot confess.

they no longer like confessions with the pastor and want go to confession in another parish

In this case, I would encourage the person to look at St Damian. He had not been able to confess and the law would not allow a priest to leave the ship to come to land and hear Fr Damian’s confession. Fr Damian went out in a small boat and shouted his confession to the confessor on the deck of the ship.

I don’t know if you have ever been on water, but, voices carry far over the water, so the people on the shore, people in other boats, could hear that confession clearly.

Ask St Damian to pray that this person will have the maturity to go to confession with any priest who is there.

free me from my oppressors (i.e. my parents)

You will grow and become an adult. Study, pray, obey your parents and know that today is not eternity.