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1 | marriage, divorce and remarriage 2nd. | 1 Cor 7:15 | action | 91666 | ||
I'm still a little confused, if you look at I Cor7:27 "Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed (divorce in NIV, released in NASB). Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife." But look at vs 28, I think this is the key: "But and if THOU" (who is the "thou" why it's the person who is divorced.) Lets finish the vs, "But and if thou marry, thou HAST NOT SINNED;" Why do I think the "thou" is the divorced person, look at the rest of the vs, it talks about a virgin marrying. We all know that it's not a sin for a "First" time marriage. The verses are specifying only a person who has lost a loved one, or an adulterous spouse, it seems to include those who has any of the "biblical divorce". Also food for thought, Marriage I believe is NOT the ceremony. It's the coming together, yes that is sex. Adam and eve became "one flesh" when they came together in a sexual union. cf I Cor. 6:16. We break the "one flesh" if we commit "fornication" Gk word "Pornie" i.e any sexual immorality. (see Matt.19) I just can't see God not allowing divorce and remarriage. I know He hates divorce (Mal.2:16), but He knows the "hardness of our hearts", and I believe has "called us to peace" (I Cor.7:15b) A God, a WONDERFUL GOD of second chances. Praise the name of Jesus. I'm not saying God wants and allows people to divorce just to remarry another pretty girl, or because their wife has bad morning breath. But it just seems as if The Son of God, when He allows divorce for sexual immorality (Matt.19:9), unbelieving spouse (I Cor.7:15), death (Rom.7:1-3) and if anything happen before salvation. (II Cor. 5:17) allows remarraige too. Am I way off track? Love in Christ Jackson |
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2 | marriage, divorce and remarriage 2nd. | 1 Cor 7:15 | gracefull | 91682 | ||
Hi Jackson, I have two observations for your comment, if you care to. 1st you said," Why do I think the "thou" is the divorced person, look at the rest of the vs, it talks about a virgin marrying. We all know that it's not a sin for a "First" time marriage" My question is that when you look at the last part of that vers it says that if you marry you will have difficulty in the flesh. My take on this concluding statement is that to 'remain unmarried' is to remain 'inactive'. While that could apply to a divorced man, it would more likely apply to a 'virgin male'. Which would take this thou back up to verse 7a 7 "Yet I wish that all men were (5) even as I myself am." Paul said this refering to the fact that he was a eunich. That would mean this verse (28) is simply saying marriage itself is not a sin. The reason this makes sense is that why would ANYONE question the marriage of a virgin as possibly being sin? 1 Corinthians 7:28 But if you do marry, you do not sin [in doing so], and if a virgin marries, she does not sin [in doing so]. Yet those who marry will have physical and earthly troubles, and I would like to spare you that. My second point is that the thou may actually be going back to verse 24 which states, "Brethren, each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called." To paraphrase a possibility...Each one should remain with God in the condition he is called, however, if one does marry, they have not sinned. God bless |
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3 | marriage, divorce and remarriage 2nd. | 1 Cor 7:15 | action | 91734 | ||
Thanks for the feed back. My main question is "are there 4 biblical reasons to divorce and remarry?" Commenting on your comments, I believe I Cor.7:27-28 shed some light. I think this verse is settling some issue at Corinth as to whether a man should be married (sex going along with that, see 7:1, "It is good for a man not to touch a woman." NKJV, KJV and NASB.) So here Paul is saying (as I see it, I'm looking for correction if I'm wrong) that if a man is not married, that it is God's best to remain unmarried, but if he is married, it is also God's best to stay married. If a man is divorced biblical (i.e because of fornication, death, desertion, or their past is under the blood.), Paul (through the Holy Spirit) gives comfort to them. (vs.28 "If you do marry, you have not sinned." NKJV) "Trouble in the flesh" is said of by Matthew Henery: "Marrying is not in itself a sin, but marrying at that time was likely to bring inconvenience upon them, and add to the calamities of the times; and therefore he thought it advisable and expedient that such as could contain should refrain from it; but adds that he would not lay celibacy (Note: I think your word "eunich", is the same as "eunuch", which is a castrated male [websters 1828], did you mean "celibacy" of paul?) on them as a yoke, nor by seeming to urge it too far, draw them into any snare..." -Matthew Henery Acts-Rev 6th vol. pg436 Ok I probably said to much already, so let me know whether or not I'm off my rockers to believe 4 reasons for divorce and remarriage. Love in Christ Jackson |
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