Re: Do you believe the innocent party in a situati
I agree no one is completely innocent as a person, for we have all fallen. So say, if a couple is married within the church and one decides to walk away from God and his/her family but the one remains faithful to God, that person is to remain unmarried? May I have scriptures please?.. I am asking this not as a challege or debate but for better understanding.
Re: Do you believe the innocent party in a situati
I think the one who commits adultery is guilty and the one who doesn't is innocent. The innocent one has had regular human failings, the one who committed adultery made a choice to sin.
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Re: Do you believe the innocent party in a situati
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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear
I have never seen an innocent party!
No one is innocent! But something are out your control! You can't stop a person for filing for divorce or committing adultery. Yes, I know marriage is more than being faithful to your spouse it includes honoring each other in both words and deeds.
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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
blueeyes, it really doesn't matter what we think or what any given organization teaches. What matters is that you read the Word for yourself (pertinent scriptures), and live according to your convictions.
btw, I believe there are innocent parties--meaning a party who did NOT break the marriage vows. No one is *innocent*--we all make mistakes--but that doesn't mean there can't be a right side and a wrong side in a covenant, especially when one has been broken.
If a thief steals from a store, the store is the injured or innocent victim/party--but that doesn't mean the store's owners have never done anything wrong in their lives. Or, if they have, that it somehow negates the wrong of stealing.
Thank you for making that statement!
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Re: Do you believe the innocent party in a situati
Blueeyes,
Miss Bratfield has given you some excellent advice in this thread.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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