6 Thoughts On Marriage & Remarriage in Babel | Having Two Legs
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Marriage, divorce, and remarriage require the Church's wisdom. While divorce often leads to adultery, exceptions exist for sexual immorality, abandonment, and severe neglect. Forgiveness is required, but reconciliation is not always possible, and remarriage may be allowed. An unlawful remarriage is considered a true union to be honored. The Church must uphold God’s design for marriage while offering grace, hope, and healing in a broken world.
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My non believing ex was having affair and filed for divorce, she was pregnant and engaged before the divorce was final, it took 3 years going back to court to win full custody and I remarried to a believer, what a huge difference 17 years with non believer was so hard, Christ or chaos now I’m almost 10 years remarried with a believer, what I learned the most? Do not do not marry a non believer there is no common ground on anything when one has an objective standard about reality and the other is like the wind it’s turmoil heaped upon turmoil, equally yoked absolutely important!!!!
This is much along the lines of what most conservative churches have taught for decades, and the fruit of it is evident. Somehow everyone's situation fits into the two (or three) exceptions you mentioned, and subsequent remarriage is eventually allowed in almost all cases. The church can't be a light in this dark world when our divorce rate mirrors the world's. We need to rightly understand that porneia in Matthew was referring to the Jewish betrothal period, and there is no allowance in 1 Cor 7 for remarriage - rather, the opposite 1 Cor 7:10-11, 39.
There are not extremes to be avoided on each side - at least not the way you described, and to label anyone whose teaching is too strict for you as a legalist is not helpful. The current teaching only muddies the waters. Repentance from our current state would admittedly be painful in many ways, but if our teaching and practices are wrong, isn't it necessary? A parallel would look something like Ezra 10, if you consider what that must have been like practically.
Well said! Jesus is not simply agreeing with Shammai. You’re on the money.
Respectfully, there’s no benefit to the body of Christ to overcomplicate & over-spiritualize what God has made clear. One man, one woman for life. The only allowance He gives for remarriage is the death of the former spouse.
When we compromise on this and defend and excuse away remarriage in the Church (and do exactly as the world does), we lose our witness to a watching world. It’s really as simple as that.
Amen
Exactly
We never talk about the person who committed the act of adultery. Are they free to remarry after a divorce?
you speaking from experience?
Signing a prenup that a CREC church would oversee any proceedings would protect both parties
I love that idea
Any comment on how our Culture is turned upside down and now women are initiating 70% of the divorces? Many of these, like my former wife of 39 years, who claims to be a believer, and she probably is, had no biblical grounds according to multiple pastoral sources. Depending on the particulars of our situation of course, might this constitute "Abandonment"?
Considering the evangelical mess with high profile preachers falling and secretly living in Babylon it would probably be a good idea for the remaining high profilers to consider their own walk with Jesus, accountability, and transparency in dealing and defeating their own proverbial “skeletons in the closet.” Jeremiah chp 17 Don’t trust in man but look to the ONE who can sustain and preserve us in Babylon, Assyria, or on the secret roof tops.
What if I got married before finding out that we are not compatible Enneagram numbers?
🤣😂 Best comment.
Too much truth to it.
For clarity, does a husband who is rightfully divorced and remarried still have the ability to meet the office qualifications outlined in the NT?
I agree with most of what you said here, but do you still forbid men and women under eighteen to marry, in spite of 1 Cor 7:1-5, 1 Tim 4:1-5, Mat 18:7, etc? Wouldn't that make 8:43 hypocritical?
If God says because of sexual immorality, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband, and you teach don't get married, that would be teaching sexual immorality. The pro same-sex crowd understands how the world works, and right and wrong same as you, so, I just don't understand 8:43.
Toby, why do you rail against divorce when you require couples to get a government marriage license that abrogate all marriage vows and makes divorce legally no fault?
I'm sorry this is happening to you.