Does God always forgive?God doesn't want you to feel that way. Can you make a list of beliefs that you believe are right and good? Surely you have found some beliefs that you feel in your heart are not just and would create a miserable life for you. God is merciful and understands you heart. Once you have made your list, seek religious counsel from someone you respect and always remember God forgives.I would take a railroad spike in my head if it would stop me from believing in Catholicism.
I'm not so sure.
What happens to unbaptized babies?
What happens to Chinese people who have never heard of the Christian God?
What happened to all the pagans who lived before Christ and never even had the chance to learn about him?
What happened to my mother, who committed suicide?
What happens to atheists who live good lives?
The more I think, the crazier I get.
It would help if you tried to follow what the Bible really teaches instead of the doctrines of a religion. This verse answers some of your questions:
Acts 24:15
And I have hope toward God, which hope these men also look forward to, that there is going to be a resurrection+ of both the righteous and the unrighteous.+
Jesus taught there is only one grounds for divorce:
Matthew 19:3-9
And Pharisees came to him intent on testing him, and they asked: “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on every sort of grounds?”+ 4 In reply he said: “Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female+ 5 and said: ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh’?+ 6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has yoked together, let no man put apart.”+ 7 They said to him: “Why, then, did Moses direct giving a certificate of dismissal and divorcing her?”+ 8 He said to them: “Out of regard for your hard-heartedness, Moses made the concession to you of divorcing your wives,+ but that has not been the case from the beginning.+ 9 I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the grounds of sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”+
However, Jehovah hates divorce:
Malachi 2:13-16
“And there is another* thing that you do, which results in covering the altar of Jehovah with tears and with weeping and sighing, so that he no longer pays attention to your gift offering or looks favorably on anything from your hand.+ 14 And you say, ‘For what reason?’ It is because Jehovah has acted as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, with whom you have dealt treacherously, although she is your partner and your wife by covenant.*+ 15 But there was one who did not do it, for he had what remained of the spirit. And what was that one seeking? The offspring* of God. So guard yourselves respecting your spirit, and do not deal treacherously with the wife of your youth. 16 For I hate* divorce,”+ says Jehovah the God of Israel, “and the one who covers his garment with violence,”* says Jehovah of armies. “And guard yourselves respecting your spirit, and you must not deal treacherously.+
God also looks favorably on forgiving even an adulterous marriage mate - as demonstrated by God's counsel to Hosea regarding his adulterous wife Gomer:
Hosea 3:1-3
Then Jehovah said to me: “Go once again, love the woman who is loved by another man and is committing adultery,+ just as Jehovah loves the people of Israel+ while they turn to other gods+ and love raisin cakes.”*
2 So I purchased her for myself for 15 silver pieces and a hoʹmer measure* and a half of barley. 3 Then I said to her: “You will remain mine for many days. You must not commit prostitution,* and you must not have relations with another man, and I will behave the same way toward you
And in the case of other unscriptural grounds for divorce:
1 Corinthians 7:10-13
To the married people I give instructions, not I but the Lord, that a wife should not separate from her husband.+ 11 But if she does separate, let her remain unmarried or else be reconciled with her husband; and a husband should not leave his wife.+
12 But to the others I say, yes, I, not the Lord:+ If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is agreeable to staying with him, let him not leave her; 13 and if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is agreeable to staying with her, let her not leave her husband.
Have you considered pleading with your wife to be reconciled - to come back to you? Or trying again?
Bottom line - if your wife has committed adultery Jesus taught you can remarry another - listen to what Jesus taught rather than to what a religion teaches.
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