Does God allow Divorce Today?

[InTheLight]

If Jesus saved us from our sins, it includes sanctification and holiness. And if this does not exists, he didn't save you from your sins. You only think he did.

Thank you... person who thinks he knows the mind of God.

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[Yeshua1]

How do you repent from sin if you do not repent from it? But nurse it along trying to be lukewarm?

No, but even after saved by God, some of us have real sin areas that will cause us to still stumble at times, correct?

 

[1689Dave]

No, but even after saved by God, some of us have real sin areas that will cause us to still stumble at times, correct?

Yes. But do we have a repentant attitude and strive to overcome it? Or do we say, oh well, that's my old nature doing its thing?

 

[1689Dave]

Thank you... person who thinks he knows the mind of God.

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Just sayin'

“But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.” (Revelation 2:20) (ESV)

 

[atpollard]

Jesus told the woman taken in adultery to go and sin no more.

Note that he did NOT tell the woman at the well to return to her FIRST husband.
Forgiven is forgiven. She is free to live a new life as a new creation.

 

[1689Dave]

Note that he did NOT tell the woman at the well to return to her FIRST husband.
Forgiven is forgiven. She is free to live a new life as a new creation.

Sin no more = leave the guy she is now living with and remain single.

 

[Yeshua1]

Not excusing sinning, but the basic truth of our human condition will not ever obtain sinless perfection state that you seem to be demanding!

 

[Yeshua1]

Sin no more = leave the guy she is now living with and remain single.

So of a Christian divorces his wife, remarries, should depart and leave his new family fatherless then?

 

[1689Dave]

Not excusing sinning, but the basic truth of our human condition will not ever obtain sinless perfection state that you seem to be demanding!

So we just throw up our hands and make excuses for not repenting?

 

[Yeshua1]

Yes. But do we have a repentant attitude and strive to overcome it? Or do we say, oh well, that's my old nature doing its thing?

We must seek to do the will of God for our lives, but we will still sin, correct?

 

[atpollard]

Sin no more = leave the guy she is now living with and remain single.

Shouldn't she have 'forgiven' and 'repented' and been reconciled to her First Husband under your interpretation?
Actually, remaining single is a sin under Jewish Law (rabbinical). It violates the command of God given in Gen 1:28

 

[1689Dave]

So of a Christian divorces his wife, remarries, should depart and leave his new family fatherless then?

There are worse conditions that break up families. But Jesus said, ““If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:26) (NET)

 

[1689Dave]

Actually, remaining single is a sin under Jewish Law (rabbinical). It violates the command of God given in Gen 1:28

No, Moses said she could not return to her first husband. It would be confusion.

 

[1689Dave]

We must seek to do the will of God for our lives, but we will still sin, correct?

If we yield to temptation it is sin. But many times we battle temptation without sinning.

 

[InTheLight]

Yes. But do we have a repentant attitude and strive to overcome it? Or do we say, oh well, that's my old nature doing its thing?

The Apostle Paul says both:

And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.

But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.

Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?

Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

Romans 7:18‭-‬21‭, ‬23‭-‬25 NLT

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[1689Dave]

The Apostle Paul says both:

And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.

But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.

Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?

Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

Romans 7:18‭-‬21‭, ‬23‭-‬25 NLT

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Paul is describing what it was like as an unbelieving Jew under the Law. He tells us elsewhere how to walk in the Spirit so we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

 

[Yeshua1]

There are worse conditions that break up families. But Jesus said, ““If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:26) (NET)

If a Man will not provide for his own, is worse than an infidel, correct?

 

[Yeshua1]

Paul is describing what it was like as an unbelieving Jew under the Law. He tells us elsewhere how to walk in the Spirit so we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

we can have victory over sinning thru the Holy Spirit enabling us, but still will sin at times!

 

[Yeshua1]

If we yield to temptation it is sin. But many times we battle temptation without sinning.

True, but when we do sin, Jesus is faithful to forgive and cleanse that sin!

 

[1689Dave]

we can have victory over sinning thru the Holy Spirit enabling us, but still will sin at times!

I think outward sin is the exception. Most of our battles are in the thought and imagination area. These can lead to outward sin if not resisted and put to rest in the temptation stage. But we pray God would lead us not into temptation because we have no strength in ourselves.