Wrong futile judgment. It is not for those who defend God's plain Words. How can you change God's Words of adultery? You have witnesses, two unapologetic pastors, Jesus Christ and John The Baptist who warned many plainly regarding living in adulterous remarriages. John The Baptist was beheaded, due to preaching the Truth unto King Heron that he and Herodias were on their road to Hell for adultery.
Jesus can forgive. But people tend to be a lot less forgiving.
I think what True Puritan initially said deserves to be addressed.Why don't we hear the church talking about folks who have divorced and remarried but the old spouse isn't dead? Scripture does refer to that as adultery. So why don't we hear as much of the church calling that out as we hear the church telling folks you can't continue in your sinful addiction or gay lifestyle and be in good standing with the church?
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say go get an abortion and another abortion and another and Jesus will forgive you. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say just continue in that gay lifestyle and Jesus will forgive you. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say just keep getting drunk every week and Jesus will forgive you.
Why is an exception made for this type of remarriage that Scripture does refer to as adultery? Do we not talk about it because it's become the norm even in the church?
So let's address it 1 Corinthians 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
If she remarries after the unbelieving spouse leaves is she an adulteress? Paul says she is not under bondage she is free to remarry. So now how do we dissimulate between an unbelieving spouse leaving and a believing spouse? Let's say in the case of the Jenners, he left her to live a life as a female is she free to remarry? He claimed to be a christian yet he has chosen to violate the word of God is she under bondage or free to marry. Under TP's claim she becomes an adulteress if she remarries, yet Scripture is clear she is free of the bonds of that marriage. If as TP claims a man leaves his wife in adultery he is not a believer for he says they will not go to heaven so the woman is free to remarry, so too would a man be free of the bondage of that marriage. What of the man who will not provide for his family we see
2 Corinthians 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an
infidel?
1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an
infidel.
The infedel who will not provide for his family and is capable denies the faith, the women is therefore free of that marriage bond.
1 Corinthians 7:5 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Deuteronomy 22:28-29,
28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Because he laid with her prior to any marriage agreement she became his wife he could not divorce her, there we have the act which was fornication becoming a marriage. He had to pay a dowry.
In the Law given for Israel and inspired by the Holy Spirit we see:
Deuteronomy 24:
1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
If she was sent away for uncleanness she was free to remarry according to the Law, that is according to scripture. It was allowed but she can never remarry the first husband once a second marriage took place. However by TP's assessment she cannot remarry but if she does she must divorce the second and remarry the first in order for it to no longer be Adultery which violates scripture.
With Paul's assessment in 1 Corinthians 7 the unbelieving spouse can leave and the believing spouse is free, so now who decides if the spouse that left was saved or not saved? We cannot look at the heart, we can see what they did so now you have two people wanting join in church fellowship both of whose unbelieving spouses have left them and they have married do you allow them in the fellowship? Paul says you do he says they are not under the bondage of the first marriage. Moses said they could because she was put away and allowed to remarry. Or do you tell them they must divorce and go back to the original spouse which is an abomination just to not call them Adulterers as T.P. claims?
