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03-24-2007, 12:25 PM
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Smiles everyone...Smiles!!
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea
Let's say they are married by an Apostolic preacher in an Apostolic church ... they are ministering in various capacities... and also have 3 kids ... but they never registered because of negligence and then because they wanted to be able to collect welfare ... and reporting 2 incomes would be unbeneficial ....
Of course ... the latter act is condemnable but is their marriage not recognized by God ??? I say it is.
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Are they recognized by God? I figure they are. But by not getting a marriage license they are putting a question mark on their marriage to them which are without. I am questioning it, and I am within.
Is that pleasing to God?
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03-24-2007, 09:04 PM
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God's Son
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A couple of times it was asked why this couple didn't get a marriage license. Maybe what should be asked is what would the situation have to be for one to accept this type of marriage as a legitimate marriage... Please note the word is legitimate, not legal. It is obviously not a "legal" marriage. Could one call it an "illegal" marriage?
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03-24-2007, 10:41 PM
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Uhm, so if they decide to separate are they divorced in the eyes of God?
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03-24-2007, 10:55 PM
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God's Son
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Good Question...
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Originally Posted by rrford
Uhm, so if they decide to separate are they divorced in the eyes of God?
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03-25-2007, 08:15 PM
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God's Son
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bumpity bump bump
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03-25-2007, 08:31 PM
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"It's Never Too Late"
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Many are married in the eye's of God as soon and they ........
Well you get the message.......
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03-25-2007, 08:33 PM
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"It's Never Too Late"
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rrford
Uhm, so if they decide to separate are they divorced in the eyes of God?
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As soon as they have relations with another they would be committing adultery.
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03-25-2007, 09:10 PM
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Christmas 2009
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We have run into this a lot in Africa. It's very expensive to have a legal government sanctioned wedding, so a lot of Christians just have a ceremony performed by a minister. Several of our pastors had been married this way. Since coming into relationship with us, we have encouraged them to go ahead and legally get married, and we have helped to fund some of these. We feel it's not a good witness for them to not be "legal" even though some of them already have 4 or 5 kids.
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03-25-2007, 09:56 PM
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Still Figuring It Out.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by stmatthew
In order to be considered married by the government, you do need to register your marriage. So God is happy with a person that has a ceremony, but leaves the authority over them looking at them as not legally married while they start living together?
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One is not "legally" married for days after the ceremony.
Why would he not be happy with them? What edict did they not obey?
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Originally Posted by stmatthew
I would still question why someone does not want to make their marriage legal.
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Why would you question peoples motives when they have done nothing wrong?
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03-25-2007, 09:58 PM
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Still Figuring It Out.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by stmatthew
Are they recognized by God? I figure they are. But by not getting a marriage license they are putting a question mark on their marriage to them which are without. I am questioning it, and I am within.
Is that pleasing to God?
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So you feel that God recognizes a union while being displeased at the same time?
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