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Offline Flavius Petrus Sabbatius

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Re: Penalty for Adultery
« Reply #45 on: November 05, 2019, 01:29:20 PM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on November 05, 2019, 11:11:17 AM
    Adultery is "objectively more heinous" than murder?  With murder, you take away not only the rights they have towards their spouse (adultery) but their rights to everything, including their spouse.  You also could be in the position of consigning their souls to hell if they were not in a state of grace at the time, and depriving them of the opportunity to acquire eternal merit.

    Adultery is committed within and defiles the body. Murder only separates the body from the soul. Adultery can never be justified in the mind of the transgressor. However, a murderer could genuinely believe that he is doing a pious and holy deed.

    Any who die in a state of mortal sin ultimately deserved such a fate. Do you think that the Lord would allow a soul of good will to perish without any chance of contrition? The just have nothing to fear because the Lord knows who are His own.
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    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Penalty for Adultery
    « Reply #46 on: November 05, 2019, 02:37:59 PM »
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    • Quote from: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius on November 05, 2019, 01:29:20 PM
    Adultery is committed within and defiles the body. Murder only separates the body from the soul.

    What makes adultery particularly egregious is the injustice committed against the spouse, and of course your vows to God.  If defilement of the body were the criterion, then sins like fornication and solitary sins against impurity, those too would be more grave than murder ... and subject to the death penalty.
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    Offline Pax Vobis

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    Re: Penalty for Adultery
    « Reply #47 on: November 05, 2019, 05:45:06 PM »
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    • Willful murder is one of the 4 sins that cry to heaven for vengeance. I know that adultery is a sin against justice and charity, but it seems murder is worse. 
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    Offline trad123

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    Re: Penalty for Adultery
    « Reply #48 on: November 05, 2019, 10:08:04 PM »
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    • Why concern yourself with matters that haven't been given to you to judge?

    You're not exactly the King of Byzantium, with the authority to mete out punishment. 
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    Re: Penalty for Adultery
    « Reply #49 on: November 05, 2019, 10:17:40 PM »
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    • Quote from: trad123 on November 05, 2019, 10:08:04 PM
    Why concern yourself with matters that haven't been given to you to judge?

    You're not exactly the King of Byzantium, with the authority to mete out punishment.
    This^
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