"I guess you could argue that he had "repented" of the negative things in his past, but then should a prospective marriage partner never pay attnetion to a person's past when they claim to be repentant? What if he had been divorced three times and accused of molesting kids? How much do you ignore? I think Cammie could have done much better for herself. "
I think the main thing is, just be wise, pray about whether or not to marry someone, maybe counsel with your bishop. Because, yes, it's true someone could claimed to have repented and entirely given something up when they haven't. But, if they have honestly repented, well if God forgets their sins, why shouldn't we? That's why it's importance to seek guidance from the spirit, if it's a bad idea to marry them, hopefully you will get a confirmation of that.
"Does anyone else think that Cammie married far below her spiritual potential by marrying Jonathan when she got back from her mission?"
But it's not like we're in a big spiritual competition. In the end, I think their goals were the same and that's what matters. Like someone, said, he had 18 months while she was on her mission. Near the end of the movie, he has sort of a spiritual experience when he drives into the mountains. I think that was the beginning of him really turning his life around. And later on, he's called as the Elders quorum president and then a bishop. I'm not trying to say that having a big leadership callings means someone is perfect, but stake presidents/bishops pray about who to call to these positions and if Jonathan was totally unworthy to be elder quorums pres. or bishop, he wouldn't have been called. And I'm sure Cammie wasn't perfect, I'm sure she'd made mistakes too (if we're considering her as a real person), but that wasn't the focus of the movie.
"Even though he did sort of get his life together there towards the end, the fact that he was worldly oriented to begin with (not to mention being divorced) should have raised red flags all over for her."
But, everyone is worldy-oriented at some point in their lives. If you turn someone down because they once got caught up in worldy things, you're going to have very limited choices. I'm not trying to attack you or anything, but this statement seems to be saying that repentance doesn't matter, it's like saying "even if he did repent, he still sinned in the first place." It just defeats the whole purpose of repentance. And just because someone is divorced doesn't automatically mean they have a big problem. In Jonathan's case, it looks like his wife just got up and left HIM. He would have been willing to continue the marriage.
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