While Technology maybe Propagating Adultery with an Alarming Increase, Religious Faith May Hold the Key to Keep the Family Together
Stephen J. Bowman, Jr.
Everglades University
ENC 1101
Abstract
With the increase of families being ruined from adultery today from the online technology there has to be an answer to saving these families. One would say just walk away, but that does not save the family. Offering true grace through true forgiveness is the way to save the family.
More and more it seems families are being destroyed by one spouse going online late at night and “hooking up” with past flings or new ones. While technology maybe propagating adultery with an alarming rate; religious faith may hold the key to keeping the family together.
Adultery Online
In this new world of technology and social media one can connect with just about anyone. With this some have broken their marital vows and entered into an adulteress affair with either a past lover or a new one. On May 16, 2012 the “Maryland and D.C. divorce attorney Regina Demeo says at least 20 percent of her cases involved illicit relationships that began on Facebook” (Donelan, 2012). According to KDKA-TV out of New York, New York “divorce attorney Ann Carrozza said ‘People are getting into treacherous terrain on facebook…..”(http://pittsburg.cbslocal.com/2012/05/28/is-social-midia-the-new-face-of-divorce) and this is destroying marriages. When these adulteress affairs happens most say they are done with the marriage, that pain is too great. How could one salvage a marriage that has reached this state?
How to Save Ones Marriage
First this is a very radical concept and relies on the power of God – “For God’s ways are not our ways”( Isa 55:8-9 God’s Word). Marriage is love and that love is sacrificial. Ephesians describes it this way, “Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the Church and gave His life for it… So husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies…” (Eph. 5:25,28, God’s Word). This is the vow that is entered into when one gets married for better or worse. When one of the spouses
Everglades University
ENC 1101
Abstract
With the increase of families being ruined from adultery today from the online technology there has to be an answer to saving these families. One would say just walk away, but that does not save the family. Offering true grace through true forgiveness is the way to save the family.
More and more it seems families are being destroyed by one spouse going online late at night and “hooking up” with past flings or new ones. While technology maybe propagating adultery with an alarming rate; religious faith may hold the key to keeping the family together.
Adultery Online
In this new world of technology and social media one can connect with just about anyone. With this some have broken their marital vows and entered into an adulteress affair with either a past lover or a new one. On May 16, 2012 the “Maryland and D.C. divorce attorney Regina Demeo says at least 20 percent of her cases involved illicit relationships that began on Facebook” (Donelan, 2012). According to KDKA-TV out of New York, New York “divorce attorney Ann Carrozza said ‘People are getting into treacherous terrain on facebook…..”(http://pittsburg.cbslocal.com/2012/05/28/is-social-midia-the-new-face-of-divorce) and this is destroying marriages. When these adulteress affairs happens most say they are done with the marriage, that pain is too great. How could one salvage a marriage that has reached this state?
How to Save Ones Marriage
First this is a very radical concept and relies on the power of God – “For God’s ways are not our ways”( Isa 55:8-9 God’s Word). Marriage is love and that love is sacrificial. Ephesians describes it this way, “Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the Church and gave His life for it… So husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies…” (Eph. 5:25,28, God’s Word). This is the vow that is entered into when one gets married for better or worse. When one of the spouses
References: http://pittsburg.cbslocal.com/2012/05/28/is-social-midia-the-new-face-of-divorce Donelan, Jennifer, (May 16, 20120 Facebook adultery trend rising as people find long, lost flings, http://www.wjla.com/articales/2012/05/facebook-adultery-trend-rising-as-people-find-long God’s Word (1995) Nations Bible Society New King James Version (1982) Thomas Nelson