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1 | Can a divorced person remarry? | 1 Cor 7:15 | Louder | 6911 | ||
If it smells fishy then take a closer look. There is just too much doubt involved in this, now extremely complicated, question. Well I usually test things objectively if they seem doubtful. We are required to test each other's doctrine by Holy Spirit and the Word of God. Well in my opinion God is a clear-cut God. The fact is children will inherit the Kindom of God. God is not the author of confusion. Ok... Now that I've got that out of the way lets see and pray that these words of God will reveal the mysteries of His truth. Matthew 19:5-6 - and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” So, only God can seperate what He has joined. Only Him. So, who does in that case seperate a man and wife when they divorce, because one of them has commited adultry? God? Who has caused this seperation? Man? Satan? Are they still seperate? I would understand the reason for the spouse who's in the right to not continue in the marriage if the other has committed adultry. However, what does actually happen when there is a divorce in this instance? Does God break the marriage? Does God undo one flesh into being two again? Hmm? Does God make mistakes that He has to redo or undo? So if God doesn't make mistakes, why would there be a need to "fix" what was never broken or seperated by God. Would it be fair to say that we break the bond of marriage that is still meant to be intact? Therefore because of this does the bond of marriage still exsist for the spouse in the right as he/she has been faithful? However the other is living in sin. I would suggest that for he/she who is in the right should honour the bond made by God and seek first the Kingdom of God and he/she will have no need to remarry. For what reason would there be for such need? Carnal? Let us look at the verse in question. 1 Corinthians 7:15 "Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace". The brother or sister is not under bondage. Bondage. Refering to, being enslaved. Would this be refering to the marriage or the sin? If there is no sin on the righteous party but only in the other. It could be saying that the righteous party is not part of the sin. However this doesn't mean that he/she is not part of the marriage, in God's eyes. As one of them has chosen to live in sin and the other has not. It seems that it could be said that God doesn't condem individuals that are part of one flesh, if the one sins. It seems as if man creates the seperation, from God and that which He made as one flesh, and is required to repent to return his original form as one flesh without seperation. And not one flesh in sin. However there is grace and peace to the faithful party, and he/she remains out of that bondage of sin created through sin by the other party. Seeing it as a tri-cord unity of marriage. God being the head and the other two being joined by God. Possibly marriage is just as part of the man and wife as it is part of God. Can this marriage still exsist by only God and one of the other parties? Till such time the guilty party repents? Remeber we are to love our enemies, and pray for those who use us and to extend the same grace we are given by God. All things are possible in Christ Jesus...Ok... Please pray and test this as required. I hope not to seek acceptance but to be tested in all ways in understanding and truth by the grace of God. God bless, Louder. (please excuse the spelling) |
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2 | What about remarriage for a new creation | 1 Cor 7:15 | caz | 9491 | ||
What does the bible say as far as a person who was divorced many years before they had a relationship with God, my situation stands as this and my husband committed adultery and left me, he is now remarried, he is not a christian and never was. Am I able to be remarried now as a christian, or does the scriptures still stick. I have been told by quite a few people that it is okay to remarry because I am now a christian, but I don't see any scriptures that say this? |
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3 | What about remarriage for a new creation | 1 Cor 7:15 | kalos | 9494 | ||
God's utter hatred of divorce is very clear in Scripture. caz: Nonetheless, there are two extraordinary cases in which Scripture teaches that God does permit divorced people to remarry. First, note that Jesus Himself included this exception clause: "Whosoever shall put away his wife, *except it be for fornication*, and shall marry another, committeth adultery" (Matt. 19:9, King James Version, emphasis added). He allows an exception in this one case, only "because of the hardness of your hearts" (Matt. 19:8). Clearly, Jesus is treating divorce as a last resort, only to be sought in the case of hard-hearted adultery. The apostle Paul allows one more reason for divorce: if an unbelieving spouse abandons a believer, the believer is under no obligation in such a case (1 Cor. 7:14). This would free the abandoned spouse to remarry. But we must emphasize that apart from those two specific, exceptional cases, divorce is not sanctioned in Scripture.(http://www.gty.org/IssuesandAnswers/archive/divorce.htm) Scripture clearly gives two cases in which there is grounds for divorce, which carries with it the right to remarry -- adultery and desertion. Your husband did both, committed adultery and left (deserted) you. Therefore, in light of the clear teaching of Scripture, you have ample Scriputral grounds for divorce and remarriage. More extensive answers to this question are available in John MacArthur, The Fulfilled Family (Chicago: Moody, 1981); and, The MacArthur New Testament Commentary: Matthew 16-23,(Chicago: Moody, 1988). |
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