• Matthew 5:32, 19:9 Exception Clause/Innocent Woman
• Does Deuteronomy 24 / The Law of Moses Prohibit Returning To The First Spouse?
• Look At The Betrothal View
• Romans 7 - Paul was talking about the Law not Marriage
• 1 Corinthians 7:15 - But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound
• 1 Corinthians 7:9 - It is better to marry than to burn It is not good for man to be alone
• 1 Corinthians 7:27-28 - But If Thou Marry Thou Hast not sinned
• 1 Corinthians 7:24 - Remain As You are Called
• Romans 8:1 - There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus
• Herod & Herodias
• 1 Corinthians 6:16 - Does Sex=Marriage? He which is joined to an harlot is one body?
• John 4 - Jesus & The Woman With 5 Husbands
• What about David & Bathsheba?
• What about Esther & King Ahasuerus?
• Hosea & Gomer
• Ezra Chapters 9 & 10 - Putting Away Unlawful Marriages
• Jeremiah 3 - God Divorced Israel
• "Put Away" Does Not Mean Divorce/A Divorce Certificate Dissolves A Marriage
• You Can’t Compare Homosexual Unions with Remarriage
• What About Abusive Marriages?
• What About The Children Of Remarriage?
• Divorce & Remarriage is Not the Unforgivable Sin
• Do Not Judge/Where Are Grace & Mercy?
• Divorce & Remarriage Before Salvation
• Men Can Divorce, Women Cannot?
• Unequally Yoked Marriages/Believers & Unbelievers
• Is Remarriage Adultery A One Time Act or Continuous Adultery?
• Does God Join All First Marriages?
• God Hates Divorce! Divorcing From A Remarriage Would Be A Sin?
• Were Remarriages In The Early Church?
• 1 Corinthians 7:11 - "Unmarried" Means The Divorced Is Free To Remarry
• 2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
• Divorce, Remarriage, Churches, Ministries, Christian Leaders, Teachers & Divorce Rates
• Are Remarriages Blessed By God?
• Polygamy & Remarriage
• General Questions & Comments

"Look at the legalized adultery we call divorce. Men marry one wife after another and are still admitted into good society; and women do likewise. There are thousands of supposedly respectable men in American living with other men's wives, and thousands of supposedly respectable women living with other women's husbands." - R. A. Torrey From R.A. Torrey's book How to Pray, pages 94-95

R.A. Torrey (1856-1928) was a very well-known Christian writer, evangelist, pastor, graduate of Yale University, and was also the superintendent of Moody Bible Institute for 19 years.

TRINITY BARS THE DIVORCED.; No Remarriage in the Church or Any of the Chapels.

The clergy of Trinity Church announced yesterday that under no circumstances will divorced persons be married by any of the clergy of that Episcopal parish, nor will such marriages be permitted either in the church at Wall Street and Broadway or in any one of the parish's eight chapels. The announcement was as follows:
View full article New York Times
December 7, 1904, Wednesday

Frequently Asked Questions, Comments and Arguments about Marriage Divorce & Remarriage

 Were Remarriages In The Early Church?

Comment/question
There WERE remarried divorcees in the church in Pauls lifetime.
Response
You can say this a million times, but it doesn't make it so. There's absolutely no "biblical" evidence of that. Paul was very clearly speaking of widows who had been married more than once----Lawfully. Paul already taught that if a woman married again while she had a living husband, she would be called an adulteress. How long would she be known as an adulteress? As long as she stayed with the other man or until her original husband died............

Comment/question
The husband of one wife can only have one meaning,
That is: one wife in a life-time.
The office of bishop was reserved to a man who:
Was the husband of one wife in his life-time.
The widower who remarried was excluded from leadership:
This was also true of the deacon I Tim. 3:12.

Compare: Female Widow I Tim. 5:11,12

1Ti 5:9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
1Ti 5:10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
1Ti 5:11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
1Ti 5:12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.

Please Note: The (female) widow was denied support form the local church if she was the “wife of more than one man”. Had she remarried she was considered to have “waxed wanton against Christ” … having damnation because they cast off their first faith... thus she was denied the support of a widow.

Thus there was an equal punishment regulation for the (male) widower who remarried and became the husband of more than one wife… he was denied the office of bishop, deacon, or other major office of leadership.
Response
How interesting! Thanks for putting that together. I know the RC church does not allow widowers who remarry to serve as deacons, but it seems in most all protestant churches, they apply this scripture to remarriage while one has a living covenant wife or to polygamy. I never could reconcile either view(the protestant application) in light of the teachings of Jesus and Paul on the nature of second marriages (adultery) and in regards to polygamy, because that too, is against the creation intent of marriage by God. Neither is acceptable for leadership OR laypersons.

There are some who teach that because of the "wife of ONE husband" passage, it proves that there were divorcees who remarried in the church. That teaching is neither verifiable through scripture, nor through the historical records writings of the early church. I believe what you presented is accurate both scripturally as well as historically and shows how the Lord values a first covenant, though He does allow another to be entered into when a spouse has died.

Thanks again. 

Comment/question
And even (Jay) Adams admits in his writing that the NT is full of remarriages...
 
Response
Yes, I too would be interested to hear of all these remarriages after divorce in the NT. The only two I know of that are clearly spoken of as situations of remarriage while a one has a spouse still living, is Herod/Herodias (John said this was an unlawful marriage because she was Philip's wife---he lost his head for saying such), and the example Paul gives in Romans 7:2-3, in which he teaches that a woman is bound til death to her husband. If she "remarries" prior to that time, she will be called an adulteress.

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