• 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

Unequally Yoked Marriages/Believers & Unbelievers  

Comment/question
Our Father (God) does not and never will sanction a marriage between good and evil.
Response
He doesn't desire it, but He sure acknowledges the validity of such a union.......... I Corinthians 7:12-14.

Comment/question
Are you trying to tell me that God would acknowledge a marriage where the husband decides he wants to become a woman and has a sex change operation? You do realize that this happens and the couple stays married?

how about the marriage where the couple are into "swinging"? You know Oprah did a show on these couples and they are perfectly comfortable with their mates being intimate with others. In fact, they encourage it as a way to make marriage better. Do you honestly think God looks down and puts His stamp of approval on marriages like this?
Response
I didn't say that God thinks the actions WITHIN the marriage are good. I said He see such marriages as VALID marriages. You seem to be saying that such marriages are not valid due to sin within the marriage, correct? The only marriages I can see that are not valid scripturally are those marriages in which one or both partners are not free to marry each other.

Comment/question
You did say this correct?
“To the contrary, Paul acknowledges that the union of believer and unbeliever is "joined" by God and the unbeliever is sanctified due to the believing spouse.”

I have just shown you what you asked, “if you can show me how that (adulterous) sinful relationship now has changed into a lawful one”
Response
Ah, but that's not what I asked, is it? I asked for you to show me that the relationship of a couple who are committing adultery (meaning they are joining with another's spouse) changes somehow through confession into a marriage joined by God.

You see, we already have a precedent that shows an unbeliever and believer can be joined by God...........but can you show me how one that is bound in marriage to their covenant spouse, commits adultery with another, is then joined by God to the one they are committing adultery with?

Comment/question
The passages you offered in Malachi 2 and in Ezra were unlawful and sinful and shows a clear picture in opposite of 1 Corinthians 7 in Christ, Perhaps you should ask Jesus why a sinful relationship between unbelievers and believers are now sanctified in Him, which was not seen in Mal 2 and in Ezra.
Response
The issue was not so much of the priest who joins with an unbeliever as it was with the putting away of one's covenant spouse----the wife of one's youth, in order to marry another. See, the big issue here is whether one is even free to marry in the first place. Two singles (never married or widowed) ARE ALWAYS free to marry. That is not the case with persons who are divorced while lawfully married. Notice I do not place all divorced persons in the same category. Some are divorced that were Unlawfully joined. In other words, they in marrying someone divorced, were committing adultery. The Unlawfully joined ARE free to get married again since their first marriages were not "joined" by God, but declared by Him to be adultery.
Comment/question
If you would stop twisting what I have already offered and apply the correct principals then you would see that I never said adultery was lawful, and I never said remarriage was a sinful relationship.
In short view…
I said the remarriage, for the lack of the correct word marriage, is a lawful marriage as are all marriages are between sinners and between saints as established in the beginning… as Jesus said. And I believe I gave the scripture that basically proved this in Romans,
Response
I never stated that you said remarriage was sinful. You obviously do not believe Jesus meant what He said. As for the scripture in Romans that proves what you believe, I don't believe that to be true. The passage Paul spoke in Romans 7:2-3 shows that not to be the case. DEATH dissolves a marriage and allows for a lawful remarriage to take place. If death has NOT occurred, then the one remarrying will be called an adulterer/adulteress----present tense.
Comment/question
The absolute dictates that if one divorces the current to go back to the former while the current is a lawful, then according to Jesus, a divorce can not be for anything other than sexual immorality. PERIOD.

This means one can not divorce the current spouse for any other reason, because the marriage is just as lawful as the first, and is bound by the very same laws. That is why it is called adultery, there has to be a legal reason to name it adultery.
Response
Again, then you believe ALL marriages are lawful.......incestuous, etc and cannot be forsaken because you believe the Lord "joins" those and prohibits ALL divorce?
Comment/question
This is why Paul said, one, or in truth “both spouses”, must “remain unmarried” in order to be reconciled, which means no contamination, other wise it is an abomination to the Lord.
Response
Interesting..........Gomer was taken back by Hosea and this at the Lord's leading.

Comment/question
Do you really believe God has signed off on every marital choice made? It is allowed, you can marry whomever you choose in obedience to scripture or not. But doesn't mean every marriage you see has been what God would deem as suitable for them.
Response
When it comes to 2 people that are free biblically to marry? Yes, I believe God "joins" them as One as Jesus teaches. As far as those who enter into illicit relationships as defined by Jesus, no, I don't believe He signs off on those relationships. They are sin. Many people seem to have the notion that it is quite ok with the Lord to keep trying to find the right mate until we "get it right"----til we find that person who fulfills us. I can't seem to find any scripture which leads me to believe this mindset. As a matter of fact, it appears that biblically speaking that some may have a real hard road to haul and that it most certainly is ordained of God. Maybe some of us have a hard lot because we NEED to have a hard lot-----for spiritual growth---for the kingdom's sake.

Instead of plowing ahead, many give up because it is "too hard". Again, I can't seem to find that mindset in scripture either. Instead, we find that "those who persevere to the end shall be saved"..........The Lord clearly said concerning the other end of the spectrum.........that He has no pleasure in them that "shrink back".

Comment/question
OK, so then does the spouse who is now born again, go back to the unbelieving 1st marriage spouse? Wouldn't that be contrary to "do not be yoked with an unbeliever? Please clarify....and the comment about "divorcing is ok due to spouse immorality"--, have you researched the 2 part Jewish marriage, and what "pornia" and "adultery" really mean in those true contexts? It then means no divorce after consummation or 2nd part, but during the betrothal, 1st part a man could give her a writ of divorce (only here) for unchastity, pornia. Changes everything doesn't it? Check it out,
Response
As to the going back to an unbelieving spouse, if one is "JOINED" by God already, what changed, if a divorce didn't dissolve the covenant? They are still married in the sight of God.

Comment/question
My thought is that if one has ever been "labeled" or guilty of adultery that God can forgive and remove that sin. If one is no longer guilty in God's eyes how can another claim that a marriage bound by God (especially if God never recognized the 1st to an unbeliever) be adulterous?
Response
God very much DOES recognize a marriage between a believer and unbeliever, otherwise such a marriage would be called fornication, and the children born of such a marriage, children of fornication---yet, we do not see that in scripture (I Corinthians 7:13-15). If one has been guilty of adultery, yes, the Lord will forgive such a one WHEN they forsake the illicit relationship. It can only be illicit in God's eyes because the person/person's involved are ALREADY joined to another in God's eyes. There is absolutely no indication in scripture that God will, upon confession of guilt, dissolve the marriage He joined together (rip apart the ONE He created), and then join the two who were previously spoken of by Him as being in adultery. The only time we see that God WILL join two that were previously in adultery is when the original spouse(s) pass away and the "left" one is then freed to be with another (Romans 7:2-3, I Corinthians 7:39).

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