And in this corner weighing in at () is FOC the reigning heavy weight champion of the Marriage, Divorce, and ReMarriage.. Toward a Biblical Perspective thread, and over here in this corner we have the contender "Sealed" weighing in at () Gentleman or Gentle Women you should protect yourselves all the times during the debate and always use nice words that edify, Build up,and encourage, let there be no words that are unwholesome, offensive, useless, worthless or unprofitablefit for nothing but the trash heap, are you will be disqualified, now lets have a good debate and shall the best person be humbled, in Jesus name. :-)
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Sealed wrote:I have always believed in the importance of context. The problem with your position is that you cause God to seem to contradict Himself, which cannot ever be put into context.
Two contradictory statements will simply never conform to one another no matter what.
"Everyone" cannot be put in context with "not necessarily everyone."
Jesus is saying that once a marriage covenant has been broken by one spouse, the other spouse is not bound to take the adulterer back into marriage union.
Sealed wrote:Quote:Jesus is saying that once a marriage covenant has been broken by one spouse, the other spouse is not bound to take the adulterer back into marriage union. The covenant is until death, and not until adultery.I Corinthians 7:39 A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. Romans 7:2-3 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.That's why Jesus says that "Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery" (Luke 16:18,Mark 10:11) If there were any way to end a marriage other than death, then everyone who divorced and remarried couldn't be guilty of adultery.Sealed
Do you think that just because he or she is not an adulterer, God will not judge every other sin by whether they have been washed in the blood of the Lamb, now? Jesus died for every sin, including porneia and moicheia, but, He had not yet died when He was answering the Pharisees.
Hi Sealed,I think you misread your quote of me. I said'Do you think that just because he or she is [b]not an adulterer[/b], God will not judge every other sin by whether they have been washed in the blood of the Lamb, now?'I did not suggest there is licence for adultery. I suggested there is NOT licence for making an unfaithful spouse's life a misery (and other sins).
OK. This is where you start to lose the plot, I believe. You say "These two sections of scripture, make it clear that divorce and remarriage are adultery, with one exception which is immorality or unchastity."Actually, it is the other way round, and that's why much of what you (and others in the unconditional matrimony lobby) are confused. Jesus is saying that divorce and remarriage is NOT adultery, unless the divorced person - that is, not the Plaintif but the Respondent - remarries.
You can be forgiven if you repent of your sin, which means to forsake it. Then He can regenerate your heart so that you will not practice sin anymore. If you continue to practice adultery, God's word says you are born of Him.
God Himself divorced Israel for committing spiritual adultery. Let us not forget that the whole concept of marriage is based on the union within the Godhead, and God's desire to prepare a wife for His Son.
I believe you meant to say the Bible says you are NOT born of Him, if you continue to practise adultery (or fornication, homosexuality, or other sins).