P#038a. Reference DEFINITIONS

FORNICATION

• a sexual engagement devoid of coercion

• between un-wed to each other persons

• be they of the opposite

• or same sex!

• (>>1st Corinthians 7:2, >>1st Thessalonians 4:3)

MARRIAGE

• the lifelong covenant (not an agreement!!!)

• tugon (dili sabot!!!)

• pang-kamatayon

• between GOD its AUTHOR as the origin 

• and the male & female partners

• jointly & severally as the committed partners

• responsible to HIM in keeping it.

• Only the death of one of the jointly held committed partners

• can break that marriage

• (>>Romans 7:2-3, >>1st Corinthians 7:39).

Neither divorce nor

legal separation; nay,

any human initiative

such as by

law-making

[>>Mark 10:9]

 to break

THAT COVENANT

authored by

GOD HIMSELF

  

is not anymore

tolerable by GOD!

ADULTERY

• any and all acts of unfaithfulness against marriage as the institution (>>Hebrews 13:4)

• and more so, AGAINST THE AUTHOR HIMSELF;

• more particularly, the sexual engagement between one married person with a married or even an unmarried partner

• wherein the parties in such sexual engagement are not the jointly-held-responsible partners before GOD.

Re-MARRIAGE

• allowed under the lifelong covenant between GOD as the 1st party

• and the male & female jointly-held-responsible-partners as the 2nd party

• when entered into by virtue of the death of one of the previously-held-responsible partners.

• (>>1st Corinthians 7:39-40).

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