GINOLJC, to DP, first thanks for the response. #1 we're no longer under the Mosaic Law. also some divorce was not an offence by either party. only the man for whatever reason, (the hardness of his heart) gave a divorce. but the same principle apply in 1 Corinthians 7:1-9 for an espouse marriage, and a consummated marriage 1 Corinthians 7:10 & 11. and this marriage is commanded by the Lord.
one might want to read that chapter and get a clear understanding.
to a point I must disagree. the Law is not spirit in nature, for the Law was a GUIDE. let me give an example. Mary and Joseph. Mary was found with child before the marriage was consummated. now if Joseph invoke the Law Mary could have been stone. Joseph walked in the spirit of the Law and not the Law itself. listen, Micah 6:8 "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?". see Joseph fulfilled the Law by showing MERCY, listen, Matthew 1:19 "Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily". this is the spirit of the Law to show MERCY. hoped that helped.
One answer, Romans 4:15 "Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression". Romans 5:20 "Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound".
I really don't think you understand, even though everything Paul says here is true:
Rom 3:26 To declare,
I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Rom 3:27 Where
is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Rom 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Rom 3:29
Is he the God of the Jews only?
is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
Rom 3:30 Seeing
it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
but he concludes :
Rom 3:31
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
why?
Seeing
it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. hence all believers are justified by the same faith as Abraham. hence all that follows Abraham is under the same.
God's Word isn't antiquated like "modern world Christians" want to believe, it is fulfilled. and flesh can fear, and can respect which is what the Lord God expected of His People Israel before Jesus came into the world. God's no fool, He made man therefore He never expected man to fulfill what it takes God to fulfill.
so there's no reason for flesh to not fear God and the things of God and flesh to not respect God and the things of God, let alone there is absolutely no reason for those who are supposed to be born of God to not fear and respect the same.
to think that God's views on what man ought to be in His sight has changed would be very incorrect. Jesus has fulfilled that to the Father's satisfaction because Adam died of the life necessary to fulfill it.
Mal_1:6 A son honoureth
his father, and a servant his master:
if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
