In Reply to: Re: Not to detract from what you posted, but posted by Pastor Don on February 01, 2010 at 22:58:36:
You wrote: "Just can't accept adultery as a Christian attribute, and it is certainly not conducive to building and maintaining a relationship between man and wife and children."
Neither can I, but please define adultery. Are you referring to partner swopping as practiced in TFI being adultery, or are you saying that all divorce equals adultery?
If it is the latter, that is where I really have a problem with Religion. If we are to take beliefs such as those held by Catholics seriously, then following their line:
If we are only to be bound to one partner in a lifetime, at what point is your partner the one you are bound to for the rest of your life? Is your God-sanctified marriage defined by fellow man, as in when a man in priestly white robes claims to be a representative of God and sanctions it and says, "I now pronounce you man and wife?"
Or is marriage defined by acts of sexual union, and that means I am still married to the first girl I had sex with?
Or am I still bound to the first girl I French-kissed when I was 14, whom I thought I'd marry and grow old with?
I certainly hope you aren't saying I am still married to my ex-wife or bound to her imperfection and ought to accept it, because we haven't spoken in 15 years and I hope to have nothing to do with her for the rest of my life.