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A Woman Prosecutes the Church of John McArthur for Publically Humiliating Her for Wanting ...**
Friendly Atheist | 18 July 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Du9d2vXtQ
In Catholicism, she would not have had the right to divorce and remarriage, but she would have had the right to separation (and when a separation needs that, using civil procedures for divorce), but still need to stay faithful at a distance.
Also, Catholicism doesn't allow a divorce victim to remarry (unless the earlier marriage was between two non-Christians and the divorce happens from someone disgusted at a Christian conversion).
So, supposing she and her husband were both validly baptised, Grace Church Community encouraged him to commit adultery in God's eyes.
Note, a valid marriage is a valid marriage, can be dissolved only by either of them dying, and if both are non-Catholic but Baptised Christians, it still applies.
And it hath been said, whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce 32 But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting for the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery [Matthew 5:31-32]
And the Pharisees coming to him asked him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him 3 But he answering, saith to them: What did Moses command you 4 Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to put her away 5 To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you that precept
6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female 7 For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife 8 And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder 10 And in the house again his disciples asked him concerning the same thing
11 And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery against her 12 And if the wife shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery [Mark 10:2-12]
Note Mark 10:11.
Context of the verse that Kent Hovind so likes to cite for the (pretty obvious so not incorrect) implication of YEC in verse 6. I liked him better back when he said "this is not my wife. it's a picture of her" ... that was his first and real wife.
I don't want to drag through all of it, I'm only at 7:29 in. But this should come as a check to the people who believed (or in some cases still believe) that John McArthur was standing on the authority of the Bible.
* In the title, I mislabelled a denomination, it's actually Grace Community Church ... which is theological nonsense. The Church on earth is NOT limited to a community of people in the state of grace. Tares and wheat. My mistake shows, I was at least not an adept. That's how unfamiliar I was with what he stood for. Except the few sermons I heard.
** Unfortunately the title is translated to French and truncated, so I don't know if it said "a divorce" or "a separation"
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