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1 | Christian man wants to remarry | 1 Corinthians | afriend | 170145 | ||
Mark, My exwife divorced me. It was a very hostile divorce. She doesn't speak to me now. Are you telling me that I should stop living my life, give up the woman I love and try to reunite with a very hostile, angry exwife? I tried to reconcile but she would not accept it. How long am I supposed to put my life on hold? Didn't God bring this new Christian woman to me? Isn't that God's will? I feel that my life is a series of tests by God. Is this another test? |
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2 | Christian man wants to remarry | 1 Corinthians | mark d seyler | 170171 | ||
Dear friend, I will add a couple of comments to what I said earlier. But it sure sounds like you simply want someone to tell you to go ahead and do what you obviously want to do, even though your heart is telling you its wrong. You said that you want to marry a divorced woman. The only ways marraige can end, where the once-married person is Biblically free to remarry is if they were married to an unbeliever who leaves (1 Cor 7), or if their spouse died (Romans 7). Did this woman's marriage end because she was a believer, her husband not, and he left her because of that? That is the only circumstance that would allow her, who was divorced, to remarry. Unless that is what happened, she is not Biblically free to remarry. Matt 5:32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. Unless her marraige ended as described above, your marraige to her would constitute adultery. Considering the statements made in the Bible about marraige, divorce, and remarraige, I would seriously question whether "God brought this woman to you". Life is a series of tests, and this is probibly one more test. I will repeat my first question to you. Are you willing to obey God, if His will is clear to you? Please understand something about marraige. This is a life-long covenant given by God between a man and a woman. Tearing a marraige apart is tantamount to ripping your own body in half. God does not intend marraiges to break up. God intends for us to make them work. Not just until the going gets tough, then just bail out, and go get another. You have answered me as if you were the victim, yet by your own admission, the marraige broke up because of your adultery. Biblically, you are not free to remarry, and whether or not there is any possiblity of reconciliation with your exwife has nothing to do with that. When the disciples questioned Jesus about how anyone could follow these rules on marraige, Jesus responded, basically, "Hey, not everyone should be married." Am I telling you to stop living your life? Well, yes I am. I mean, you can live your own life, or you can live the life God wants you to live. Do you trust Him to know what is best for you? Can you trust Him to do what is right for you? Please seek pastoral counseling, and not just advice over the internet. Prayerfully, with Christ's love, Mark |
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3 | Consistent biblical answers? | 1 Corinthians | afriend | 170192 | ||
Mark, I am looking for answers and I am getting different answers to my question. My exwife was raised a Christian and lives a moral life but is not active in church. I was not a Christian when we married. I became a Christian while we were separated and fell in love with a divorced Christian woman in my new church. My exwife divorced me because after many years of trying to reconcile she could not trust that I would be faithful and wanted to control my friendships with women. Basically she told me that I could not have women friends and be married to her. That is just ridiculous and I will not live my life that way. I did not want to be repressed by my exwife and I enjoy my new church and new friends. My exwife does not fit my new life. She will not accept me as I am. She does not believe I am a Christian because I did not cut off all communication with women and come home to her. My exwife does not believe I repented or made ammends so she gave up on me and divorced me. Our divorce was very hostile and I do not believe we will ever have a relationship in the future. I try to be kind to her but she will not accept the changes in me. At the moment my exwife will not even talk to me. This Christian woman I have met is unlike anyone I have ever known. My new friends and church are unlike any group I have ever been a part of. It is difficult for me to believe that God would have me go back to the hostility of my exwife and walk away from the woman and friends that have supported me through the toughest part of my life. What is God's will? |
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4 | Consistent biblical answers? | 1 Corinthians | Nathanial | 170197 | ||
Cutting loose the past. Luke 9:62 (what has happened is already gone) Truly Accepting the forgiveness of Jesus. Daniel 9:9 (forgiveness despite of rebellion) Acts 5:31 (gives repentance and forgiveness of sins) Acts 13:39 (forgiveness freely given) Being faithful and sinning no more. John 5:14 (sin no more) John 8:11 (no condemnation) Obeying the words of Jesus. Matthew 5:31-32 (divorced woman) |
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