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1 | Do you agree with my personal opinion? | 1 Cor 7:15 | kalos | 340 | ||
I want to thank you and others for their replies to my question. Yes, I do agree with your personal opinion regarding marriage and I thank you for your answer. However, my original question remains unanswered. My question is not whether the New Testament provides grounds for divorce. Clearly it does -- sexual immorailty or desertion. My question is not how do Christians feel about divorce. It is not "Do you recommend divorce?" . . . Perhaps I didn't clearly state my original question. Let me make it clear. What I'm trying to find out is "What is divorce? What does the word divorce mean?" When the Jews, Romans and Greeks in the time of Christ's earthly ministry -- when they heard the word divorce, what did they understand it to mean? Is divorce merely a legal separation from bed and board? OR is it the dissolution of the marriage bond just as though that marriage had never existed? If it is the latter, then would not the right to divorce carry with it the right to remarry? Please don't misunderstand me. My question is not is it OK to divorce or should Christians divorce. My question is what is divorce? What does it mean? How was it understood at the time of Christ on earth? | ||||||
2 | Do you agree with my personal opinion? | 1 Cor 7:15 | gracefull | 88151 | ||
Good question... Let me state ClEARLY before I begin that without the grace of God we would all be eternally lost and that adherance to the 'law' does not produce righteousness of the heart. All our righteousness is HIS righteousness provided through faith in the blood! But I personally am beginning to believe that this has been an excues for the body of Christ to brush aside the holy standards God expects His people to live by. Jesus said the He did not come to eliminate the law, but to fulfill the law. He came to make the way for us to abide by the will of God from the HEART. Marriage should be viewed by believers from God's perspective and the cultural interpretation should be 'put away'! Taking the following into consideration als remember Jesus' words to men. Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. The hardness of men's hearts brought about the 'puting away' of wives. Based on the Old Testament the one divorced was 'put away'. Leviticus 21:6-8 6 They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy. 7 They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or polluted or profane or DIVORCED, for [the priest] is holy to his God. 8 You shall consecrate him therefore, for he offers the bread of your God; he shall be holy to you, for I the Lord Who sanctifies you am holy. KJV 6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy. 7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman PUT AWAY from her husband: for he is holy unto his God. 8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy. Matthew Henry Commentary Verse 6. Holy unto their God - Devoted to God's service, and always prepared for it, and therefore shall keep themselves from all defilements. The name of their God - Which they especially bear. The bread of their God - That is, the shew-bread: or rather, all the other offerings, besides burnt-offerings: which are called bread, because bread is commonly put for all food. Verse 7. Profane - Or defiled, or deflowered, though it were done secretly, or by force: because the priest must take care that all the members of his family be free not only from gross wickedness, but from all suspicions of evil. Verse 8. Thou - O Moses, and whosoever shall succeed in thy place, to whom it belongs to see my laws observed, shall take care that the priest be holy, and do not defile himself by any of these forbidden marriages. Put away or divorced mean the same it would seem. And a woman put away was not to be married to another. Now while the argument will surely be posed that this was written to the Livitical Priest...scripture tells us we as born again believers ARE kings and priests, sanctified by the the blood, set apart for service unto our Lord. Revelation 1 5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, 6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. This would be TRUTH that when we SEE we are then obligated to keep. I personally believe the truth of God's holiness and His expectaion of our consecration and fear has been watered down by mans rebellion and that the body of Christ is very weak due to this. The body of Christ needs to pray for a revelation of God's holiness and to be convicted to the depths of our soul to see the truth of God's expectations of us! I do not have time this morning to address the question as to wheterh men were still required to support their wives 'put away' within their camp or if the wives returned to their own families. Purhaps someone else can address this. God bless |
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3 | Do you agree with my personal opinion? | 1 Cor 7:15 | kalos | 88202 | ||
There are Scriptural grounds for divorce: adultery or desertion. The key to understanding this issue lies in the proper understanding of the word divorce and what it means, including what it meant to the average Greek, Roman or Jew of the first century when he heard the word. A tradition dating back centuries and beginning with the Roman Catholic Church views divorce as "legal separation from bed and board." And that's all divorce is in this tradition. However, The people of the time of Jesus' earthly ministry, both Jews and Greeks, properly understood that divorce was the "dissolution of the marriage bond just as though it had never existed." If one accepts the second definition (the definition that is true both Biblically and historically), then one can only come to one conclusion: The RIGHT TO DIVORCE carries with it THE RIGHT TO REMARRY. If it doesn't, then divorce is not dissolution of the marriage bond just as though it had never existed. Instead divorce becomes legal separation from bed and board, nothing else. Which definition to follow: the popular one (legal separation) or the historically and Biblically sound one (dissolution of the marital bond, which carries with it the right to remarry)? Additionally, 1 Cor 7:11 clearly teaches that "If a Christian divorces another Christian except for adultery, neither partner is free to marry another person. They should reconcile, or at least remain unmarried" (p. 1738, MacArthur Study Bible, Word, 1997). (See also the book "The Right to Remarry" by Dwight Hervey, Hardcover (September 1975), Fleming H Revell Co; ISBN: 0800707583. This book is now out of print, but recently had a limited availability at amazon.com) |
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