Fornication and Remarriage

[joegreen]

1 Corinthians 7:2 "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."
Fornication-A single person having someone's Biblical (covenant) companion.
It seems to be slowly developing in the minds of the people that when a man who has no living wife marries a woman with a husband that that man will be free to divorce this woman and be free to marry another. The man is guilty of fornication and may marry another but the woman is bound to her first companion.
-Church of Prophecy

 

[Angelina]

When you marry someone, you can no-longer be called a fornicator because that only applies to a single person having sexual relationship with someone else, outside of marriage.

 

[Born_Again]

1 Corinthians 7:2 "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."
Fornication-A single person having someone's Biblical (covenant) companion.
It seems to be slowly developing in the minds of the people that when a man who has no living wife marries a woman with a husband that that man will be free to divorce this woman and be free to marry another. The man is guilty of fornication and may marry another but the woman is bound to her first companion.
-Church of Prophecy

Im not entirely sure you know what you are trying to say. The scripture you quoted is not proper context for what your pasted article is saying.

 

[Guestman]

At 1 Corinthians 7, the apostle Paul was giving inspired instructions on sexual matters, that "because of the prevalence of sexual immorality ("fornication", King James Bible), let each man have his own wife and each woman have her own husband".(1 Cor 7:2)


In the 1st century, fornication or sexual immorality was so prevalent in Corinth as a seat of governmental authority and leading commercial center of Greece, that the expression "to Corinthianize" came to mean "to practice immorality" because the city symbolized licentiousness and wanton luxury, with sensuality being part of Corinthian worship, particularly of the goddess Aphrodite (counterpart of the Roman Venus, the Phoenician and Canaanite Astarte and Babylonian Ishtar). A temple to Aphrodite sat on top of the Acrocorinthus, a steep, rocky hill towering 1,683 feet above the marketplace or agora.


The English word "fornication" is from the Greek word porneia that is a general term for all unlawful sexual intercourse, in or outside of marriage.(B.F.Westcott [Greek scholar], Saint Paul's Epistle, 1906, pg 76) It includes adultery, prostitution, sexual relations between unmarried individuals, homosexuality, and bestiality.(Bauer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, 1979, pg 693)


It is used in the Bible book of Revelation figuratively with regard to a religious prostitute called "Babylon the Great" (all the false religions of the world, built on the prototype of ancient Babylon as a noted center of false religion [Isa 47:12, 13; Jer 51:47], that is in opposition to the "one faith" or one pure religion that pleases God, Eph 4:5; Isa 2:2-4) to describe her consorting with the political rulers of this world for power and material gain.(Rev 14:8; 17:1, 2; 18:3)

 

[shnarkle]

When you marry someone, you can no-longer be called a fornicator because that only applies to a single person having sexual relationship with someone else, outside of marriage.

To a certain degree this is true. A married person who engages in relations outside of their marriage is referred to as an adulterer.

 

[shnarkle]

1 Corinthians 7:2 "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."
Fornication-A single person having someone's Biblical (covenant) companion.
It seems to be slowly developing in the minds of the people that when a man who has no living wife marries a woman with a husband that that man will be free to divorce this woman and be free to marry another. The man is guilty of fornication and may marry another but the woman is bound to her first companion.
-Church of Prophecy

Your use of pronouns is a bit vague in your commentary. Regardless. Jesus and Paul are quite clear that anyone who divorces their spouse, except for abandonment (fornication is abandonment); is an adulterer. Anyone who marries a divorced woman is an adulterer. The beauty of Christ's statements is that they cut to the chase and simply state the obvious.

"Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery." Luke 16:18

People who don't like this simplistic approach will inevitably point out Christ's words on the legitimacy of divorce. So what? Christ isn't disannulling divorce. He's pointing out that divorce serves a purpose in society. It is God's grace to allow those who shouldn't be married in the first place to get a "Get Out of Hell free" card. This is in no way an invitation to go out and get married again. See how that works? He plainly cuts to the chase and blocks that option altogether. Those who are too cold hearted to remain married should not get married again. As Paul says, "Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife. 1 Cor. 7:27