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NASB | 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. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 7:15 But if the unbelieving partner leaves, let him leave. In such cases the [remaining] brother or sister is not [spiritually or morally] bound. But God has called us to peace. |
Bible Question:
I think we have a very carnal understanding on marriage!! It is definitely more than just two people in love. It is an expression of things heavenly, I mean for the believer! With an appreciation of which, we should not have any of these rather self centered opinions, that challenge the mercy of God to usward. 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. JAH BLESS. |
Bible Answer: Tuli I agree we have a very carnal understanding on marriage! However it does/must carry the same meaning to believers and unbelievers. We are making a covenant before God and man that we will allow nothing to separate us. This covenant, this promise, is something that is to be taken dead seriously. Why because it can cost us our life. When man and woman come together they become one. Like two pieces of paper glued together. And like those two pieces of paper that are glued together when you try to separate them, some of the one remains stuck to the other. In a sense we lose a part of ourselves and retain a part of the other. We are forever changed never to be as we were before we married. If we spent as much time getting married as we do getting divorced many many marriages would never take place and rightly so. As many are fatal mistakes, they will kill our hopes, our desires, our faith and in some cases our spirits (through sin). Should a marriage fail for whatever reason before the person remarries they should consider the consequence of having yet another being glued to them. Is that person going to make them closer to God or move them further away? Is that person carrying baggage that in their wounded state, is going to help or hinder their recovery. Most of all what does God say to them personally about remarriage? Many enter a second marriage in even more haste than they did the first and many find they are worst off instead of better off. God hates divorce for a reason! He knows exactly the devastation and damage it does to two people. There is no way around it. We call ourselves Christians, people of faith yet when marriages are going wrong we rarely if ever travail in prayer. Oh, we might cry out to the Lord for help but rarely do we become dependant upon prayer. It becomes simpler to say God knows I had to divorce. EdB |