One reason "Why is divorce never?? allowed" is a incorrect statement
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.......................Sometimes, the stresses of marriage may seem unbearable, especially if our spouse is alcoholic, abusive, mentally ill or unfaithful. In such situations, we can stay faithful to our commitment; by remembering, how Jesus compensated for our wrong doings, when we were unfaithful to him and wronged him. We should continually pray and make sacrifices for the conversion of our spouse. In our prayers, we should surrender ourselves completely to God’s will, and ask Him to be our thoughts, feelings, desires and actions.[/QUOTE] Quote from post 1 of this thread[/I].
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She was only 5 or 6 years of age. I hadn't seen her for a long time.
I asked her mother why does her left eyelid keep blinking.
The mother burst into tears.
I was visiting a married couple that I hadn't seen for a few years. I had gone to school with the husband. We had been very good friends. He then moved to another part of the country 2000klms from where I lived.
The mother I didn't know that well, I met her at the wedding.
When she calmed down from the crying she told me that the child was being beaten by the husband. The Doctors were still looking into how they could fix her eyelid.
I and another friend sat in shock as we heard this. We were guests of this family, sharing the family home for a few days.
The child had long hair, the mother told me how the husband would drag the child out of bed by the hair and throw her. I cannot imagine the terror that child experienced. The Mother also was being bashed and showed us evidence of that. She told us that she would have to leave the marriage if the husband started to punch, throw, scream at the new baby. She told me that the husband told her that if she ever left that he would find her and kill her. She told us, that by us staying in her home the violence against her by her husband had stopped momentarily. We didn't sleep easily after hearing all of that.
The news came within a few years that mother had disappeared. Her husband came home from work to find a empty home.
The younger child was being bashed as well.
For those who don't understand a child being bashed by a parent can lead to long term emotional damage.
The husband appeared again back near where I lived. In the following years he broke into my Aunties home and tried to rape her. His own mother had to flee when he entered her home in a rage with a gun.
He has since bashed another woman and is facing criminal charges for breaking her limb.
Statistics show that if the mother had of not fled and "kept forgiving" the husband, there would be a high risk of her or one of the children being murdered or injured, ongoing Emotional damage from this situation would occur.
Woman and Children need to be protected from domestic violence.Domestic violence is widespread, this is not a isolated incident.
A 9 year old girl was murdered by a parent in my home town this week.
Yes we are to forgive. The bible clearly states that.
However would Jesus tell her to go back for more of the same?
Some issues are not as "Black and white" as we would like them to be.
Quote from post 1 of this thread.
.......................Sometimes, the stresses of marriage may seem unbearable, especially if our spouse is alcoholic, abusive, mentally ill or unfaithful. In such situations, we can stay faithful to our commitment; by remembering, how Jesus compensated for our wrong doings, when we were unfaithful to him and wronged him. We should continually pray and make sacrifices for the conversion of our spouse. In our prayers, we should surrender ourselves completely to God’s will, and ask Him to be our thoughts, feelings, desires and actions.[/QUOTE] Quote from post 1 of this thread[/I].
.
.
She was only 5 or 6 years of age. I hadn't seen her for a long time.
I asked her mother why does her left eyelid keep blinking.
The mother burst into tears.
I was visiting a married couple that I hadn't seen for a few years. I had gone to school with the husband. We had been very good friends. He then moved to another part of the country 2000klms from where I lived.
The mother I didn't know that well, I met her at the wedding.
When she calmed down from the crying she told me that the child was being beaten by the husband. The Doctors were still looking into how they could fix her eyelid.
I and another friend sat in shock as we heard this. We were guests of this family, sharing the family home for a few days.
The child had long hair, the mother told me how the husband would drag the child out of bed by the hair and throw her. I cannot imagine the terror that child experienced. The Mother also was being bashed and showed us evidence of that. She told us that she would have to leave the marriage if the husband started to punch, throw, scream at the new baby. She told me that the husband told her that if she ever left that he would find her and kill her. She told us, that by us staying in her home the violence against her by her husband had stopped momentarily. We didn't sleep easily after hearing all of that.
The news came within a few years that mother had disappeared. Her husband came home from work to find a empty home.
The younger child was being bashed as well.
For those who don't understand a child being bashed by a parent can lead to long term emotional damage.
The husband appeared again back near where I lived. In the following years he broke into my Aunties home and tried to rape her. His own mother had to flee when he entered her home in a rage with a gun.
He has since bashed another woman and is facing criminal charges for breaking her limb.
Statistics show that if the mother had of not fled and "kept forgiving" the husband, there would be a high risk of her or one of the children being murdered or injured, ongoing Emotional damage from this situation would occur.
Woman and Children need to be protected from domestic violence.Domestic violence is widespread, this is not a isolated incident.
A 9 year old girl was murdered by a parent in my home town this week.
Yes we are to forgive. The bible clearly states that.
However would Jesus tell her to go back for more of the same?
Some issues are not as "Black and white" as we would like them to be.
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