Bob Estey
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I wish I were wise enough to answer that. Maybe the best answer would be to separate from your spouse, or at least discontinue sexual relations.
Is Divorce Evil?
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I was divorced an re-married long before I was born again but God has accepted me and forgiven me because he is God and bigger and wiser and more merciful than we are. He accepted me as a divorced and re=married woman so there is no need to separate. He accepts drug addicts, thieves even murderers who repent.
So many Christians seem to think we have to be good to become Christians but we don't and that attitude can be a stumbling block for people who think they are not good enough for God. Anybody is good enough for God, no matter what is in their past. It is our future that God is concerned with becaue he will wipe out our past lives.
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Tha
That’s actually an interesting question. Technically, Jesus says: MOSES permitted it because of the hardness of your hearts.
We don’t “ clean ourselves up “ and then go to God—— We go to God and “ HE” does the cleaning....
Your past sins were forgiven, but if one divorced after being saved, that would be a violation of God's commandment, and have serious consequences.
And if you were divorced by the other person and she has since remarried? Are you saying I am destined to be alone the rest of my life because of her choice to divorce me?
Johann
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No. Since God is just He would not hold you accountable for another person's sins. So in fact if your were the injured party, you would be free to marry but only "in the Lord" (since you present yourself as a Christian).
Johann
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Mat_5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Mat_19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
But I say unto you; that whosoever shall put away his wife,.... Christ does not infringe, or revoke the original grant, or permission of divorce; only frees it from the false interpretations, and ill use, the Pharisees made of it; and restores the ancient sense of it, in which only it was to be understood: for a divorce was allowable in no case,
saving for the cause of fornication; which must not be taken strictly for what is called fornication, but as including adultery, incest, or any unlawful copulation; and is opposed to the sense and practices of the Pharisees, who were on the side of Hillell: who admitted of divorce, upon the most foolish and frivolous pretences whatever; when Shammai and his followers insisted on it, that a man ought only to put away his wife for uncleanness; in which they agreed with Christ. For so it is written (i),
"The house of Shammai say, a man may not put away his wife, unless he finds some uncleanness in her, according to Deu_24:1 The house of Hillell say, if she should spoil his food, (that is, as Jarchi and Bartenora explain it, burns it either at the fire, or with salt, i.e. over roasts or over salts it,) who appeal also to Deu_24:1. R. Akiba says, if he finds another more beautiful than her, as it is said, Deu_24:1 "and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes."''
The commentators (k) on this passage say that the determination of the matter is, according to the school of Millell; so that, according to them, a woman might be put away for a very trivial thing: some difference is made by some of the Jewish doctors, between a first and second wife; the first wife, they say (l), might not be put away, but for adultery; but the second might be put away, if her husband hated her; or she was of ill behaviour, and impudent, and not modest, as the daughters of Israel. Now our Lord says, without any exception, that a man ought not to put away his wife, whether first or second, for any other reason than uncleanness; and that whoever does, upon any other account,
causeth her to commit adultery; that is, as much as in him lies: should she commit it, he is the cause of it, by exposing her, through a rejection of her, to the sinful embraces of others; and, indeed, should she marry another man, whilst he is alive, which her divorce allows her to do, she must be guilty of adultery; since she is his proper wife, the bond of marriage not being dissolved by such a divorce: and
whosoever shall marry her that is divorced, committeth adultery; because the divorced woman he marries, and takes to his bed; is legally the wife of another man; and it may be added, from Mat_19:9 that her husband, who has put her away, upon any other account than fornication, should he marry another woman, would be guilty of the same crime.
(i) Misn. Gittin, c. 9. sect. 10. Vid. T. Hieros. Gittin, fol. 49. 4. & Sota, fol. 16. 2. & Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 9. fol. 195. 2. (k) Maimon. & Bartenora in Gittin, c. 9. sect. 10. (l) T. Bab. Gittin, fol. 90. 2. Maimon. Hilch. Gerushin, c. 10. sect. 21, 22.
Gill
Did you know God also had a divorce?
Jer_3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
If one simply Lusted after another woman “ after being saved” that person is no better than an Adulterer in the eyes of God.....if only our “ past” sins are forgiven we are ALL facing “ serious consequences” .....The Grace Of God covers ALL sins( Col2:13) ......I would advise people to be like Paul and not “ hold back “ the Grace of God....It is the ONLY thing that ever saved anybody that “ got” saved....” It is by Grace that you are Saved” .....Legalist get their panties in a knot when the see this but , nevertheless it is True—- “ Where Sin abounds, Grace Super Abounds”....... try to deal with that.....They don’t refer to it as “ Amazing Grace” for no reason....
Did you know God also had a divorce?
Good observation.....something you don’t hear about every day....
Good observation.....something you don’t hear about every day....
You did not read my post carefully. I was speaking about a former unsaved person who was divorced at that time. Those sins were forgiven when that person was saved. Which means that that divorce would not affect what happened afterwards.
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