lol ...speaking of joos...it is a very "jooish" thing to marry your dead heirless brother's wife...Deut 25:5 “If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her. 6 The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.”
But they skipped that text about a dead sibling and made it about about a text concerning a living brother:
“Furthermore, the Book of Leviticus chapter 20 says, "If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless." All of this made the Henry-Catherine pairing a sticky wicket, so to speak. However, it was entirely possible to get the pope to grant a special dispensation to allow the marriage despite the rules, which is extra possible if you're the king
Read More:
https://www.grunge.com/319732/the-real-reason-henry-viii-couldnt-get-a-divorce/
So the pope granted an unnecessary dispensation as Henry wasn’t uncovering his living brother’s nakedness but engaging in a levirite marriage or Yibbum to provide for his dead's brother line.
But the pope wants in and to have absolute authority…
Which only complicated things:
“…his marriage to Catherine had only been made possible in the first place by a special dispensation from the pope. For Henry to ask a later pope to issue a dispensation counteracting the earlier one was basically asking one pope to say an earlier pope had been wrong, which is supremely uncool.”
Yes very uncool…don’t wanna make da pope fallible ya dig?
The other text ignored is:
And Henry dun that...committed adultery…even had a son from it…like David with his Bathsheba/Solomon. So that’s grounds for a divorce.
Even the Pharisees in the NT had Him confirm divorce was in fact permitted specifically because of infidelity. Please see Matt 19.
And now add this:
Deuteronomy 24:1 “If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house…”
Jeremiah 3:1
They say, ‘If a man divorces his wife,
And she goes from him
And becomes another man’s,
May he return to her again?’
Would not that land be greatly polluted?
But you have played the harlot with many lovers;
Yet return to Me,” says the Lord.
Already in the OT Israel was considered His bride...and an adulterous one...imagine the Roman Church not allowing His divorce from her...lol
"no no we must prove you were never married"...lol
> The bottom line is that the sexual corruption of society launched by Henry VIII is fixed in the Protestant mindset, and once family break-up is normalized, entire nations will end up controlled by Jews. Catholic morality is the only way out of it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with skin color but the color of your soul.
yeah yeah...there was NO sexual corruption of society before Henry 8 launched it...lol
The irony he was attempting to do a good Roman Catholic thingy...make a SON to put real umph into the political dynamics...much like Martin Luther who because he loved his Church wished the abuses of indulgences would be reformed...and they were...later
So it was a Roman Catholic own goal that forbid him divorce "cuz tradition" despite his own infidelity and...
An own goal which still cripples it today...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...s-catholic-churchs-marriage-annulment-process
The details about the pontiff's alleged call to an Argentine woman are changing, but if the story is true, it would still be a big deal. Here's why, and what we know so far.
religionnews.com
But yes not allowing divorce and making up the process of annulments is yet another way His Law is applied variously.
And so all this makes it relevant to this thread and only contributing to it...and not summing it up…
Imagine if the pope had granted divorce and on biblical grounds…Henry 8 might have remained a great defender of the Roman Catholic faith.
Sadly Henry 8 wasn't EO eh?
“The Orthodox Church recognizes the sanctity of marriage and sees it as a life-long commitment. However, there are certain circumstances in which it becomes evident that there is no love or commitment in a relationship.
While the Church stands opposed to divorce, the Church, in its concern for the salvation of its people, does permit divorced individuals to marry a second and even a third time.”
What is the church’s stance on divorce? How many times may one remarry? Are there differencesin the service.
www.oca.org
Followup questions: 1/ is the Pope Catholic? 2/ is the there even a Pope these days? 3/ Do actual Catholics still exist? Name some.
Depends on who you ask…