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If your wife was found guilty of serial murder, and sent to death row, where she languished 40 years before being electrocuted, and in that time, you struck up a friendship with a lovely lady not prone to dissolving people in acid baths, and in the course of the friendship, you became mutually attracted, what would you do?
Tough eh?
Tough eh?
You can love a person without marrying them. If you are in control of your desire, that is a better choice, according to Paul:
[36] If any one thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry -- it is no sin.
[37] But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.
[38] So that he who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains from marriage will do better. 1 Cor 7:36-38 RSV
[36] If any one thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry -- it is no sin.
[37] But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.
[38] So that he who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains from marriage will do better. 1 Cor 7:36-38 RSV
[FONT="][/FONT][FONT="]26 I think then that this is good in view of the [o]present distress, that it is good for a man [p]to remain as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28 But if you marry, you have not sinned;[/FONT][FONT="]
Basically just normal human behaviour, except that because of the severe persecution, Paul felt it was no bad thing to avoid marriage at that time. But basically, if your wife was as serial killer, find another one.. [/FONT]
Basically just normal human behaviour, except that because of the severe persecution, Paul felt it was no bad thing to avoid marriage at that time. But basically, if your wife was as serial killer, find another one.. [/FONT]
