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Common Law Marriage

Jerome

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if God accepted what man calls common law marriage then Jesus was wrong to tell the woman at the well (John 4:18) that she had prior 5 husbands but the one she currently has is not her husband. She had clearly went through the marriage ceremony 5 times but now was just shacked up (common law marriage)
An element of common law marriage is that the husband and wife "must present themselves as married to their social circle and community". But the Samaritan woman herself denied that she was married currently, and Jesus agreed with her.

"The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband"

There is no common law marriage when a couple deny being married.

You continue to wrongly conflate common law marriage with fornication, despite being corrected over and over.
 

Judith

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An element of common law marriage is that the husband and wife "must present themselves as married to their social circle and community". But the Samaritan woman herself denied that she was married currently, and Jesus agreed with her.

"The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband"

There is no common law marriage when a couple deny being married.

You continue to wrongly conflate common law marriage with fornication, despite being corrected over and over.
Point me to one account where today in common law marriage fornication has not taken place. Today common law marriage is not of God as practiced.
 

Jerome

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You continue to wrongly conflate common law marriage with fornication, despite being corrected over and over.
Point me to one account where today in common law marriage fornication has not taken place. Today common law marriage is not of God as practiced.
And there you go again.

As has been explained over and over, a common law marriage begins when the couple contract with each other to be married. They then live together as husband and wife because they are married.

As has been explained over and over, fornication does not and cannot result in establishment of a common law marriage.
 
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