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Originally Posted by T@T
Then why wouldn't the church allow King Henry to divorce? he had to murder a couple of wife's and then create his own church to get out of marriage.
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The Catholic church believes that they hold the keys to the kingdom and therefore speak for God on earth. They have declared marriage to be a sacrament. In other words marriage imparts grace which covers sin. Also marriage like all sacraments are sacred and are under the absolute control of the church. It wasn't the scriptures that King Henry was wrestling with but, the politics of the church.
If Henry's authority was the scriptures he wouldn't have been able to divorce his wife because she had remained faithful.