And speaking to Erin, I don’t and God certainly doesn’t expect lost people to understand what marriage is and live it out. He gave it to us for our protection and divorce is unfortunately going to happen because the hardness of our hearts. However, Christians are expected to hold to the lifelong standard of commitment. Divorced people can remarry, however a lot of wisdom must be involved in the process, including the person’s marital state at the time they were saved, the status of their ex-spouse, and the person’s recovery and healing from the previous relationship.

We as Christians cannot have it both ways. Either a divorced person can remarry or they cannot. The Apostle Paul, writing by the authority and power of God’s own Spirit says they can.

It is not I old school people are disagreeing on this topic but the Bible its self you are having your struggle with because I just presented the passages in chronological order for all to read.

Please do not eagerly accept teaching based off mankind’s opinion rather look at the scriptures with an open heart and eyes. To base an opinion on MDR without looking at all the scriptures or discounting some to fit a church preconceived ideal of restriction and restitution on other people is wrong.

God never made such rules within the New Church and New Covenant and we should not either.

God spoke through Paul, and said that people who forbid marriage depart have departed the faith, give heed to deceiving spirits and practice the doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron. (1 Tim 4:1-5)

I would rather look at all the scriptures God has provided and not just pick the ones I want to fit ideas I was told all of my life.

Some man made facts to consider:

1. The New Testament never EVER speaks of scriptural or unscriptural marriage. This is mankind’s restriction not Gods.

2. The New Testament never EVER requires remarried divorced people to DIVORCE yet again. This is mankind’s restriction not Gods.

3. The New Testament never EVER requires remarried people to DIVORCE a PRESENT spouse and return to a PRIOR spouse. This is mankind’s restriction not Gods.

4. The New Testament never EVER talks about INICENT party concerning divorce. This is mankind’s restriction not Gods.

5. The New Testament never EVER requires a Pre-Baptism qualification test covering present marriage or prior marriages or divorce. This is mankind’s restriction not Gods.

6. The issue of MDR was never a true concern in the churches of Christ until the topic appeared in the Gospel Advocate and Firm Foundation church wettings. If you take those same articles and check the keynote points mad with the official Sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church you will find that they are exactly the same. Therefore, the churches of Christ formed their rules concerning marriage, divorce and remarriage based upon Catholicism and not scripture.

Some more important and true Biblical facts to consider:

1. God hates ALL divorce period.

2. To break an agreement or vow (covenant) is a sin in God’s eyes period.

3. Like it or not, in a divorce, both the husband and the wife break the covenant of marriage concerning their vows to each other. (Till death we do part, for sickness and health, for richer or poorer, etc…) when they each agree to the conditions of the divorce.

4. God’s ideal is for one man and one woman in one marriage for one lifetime.

5. God, Himself, told, directed, allowed and authorized Moses to require a letter of divorce when a marriage ends. We know this because the Old Testament says that the only disobedience to God that Moses ever did was hit the rock instead of speaking to it.

6. All sins are forgivable by God including divorce (adultery in this case) and God remembers them no more: Period.

7. The Bible tells us to trust God and not men.

In all of your post on the websites you have baring people from marriage none address what Paul had to say in 1Tim 4:1-5 or 1Cor 7:27-28 much less the Biblical fact that once a sin has been repented of there is no more sin in the eyes of God because God no longer remembers it. Only mankind remembers wrongs of others. Not God.

If you are going to dedicate so much of your opinion to MDR on websites you make and post, then you should at least study scripture for what IT says and not so you can defend your OPPINION of what scripture DOES NOT say.

Why is something that God hates (divorce) so prevalent in our society today?

It is because people today do not know what the Bible says about marriage, divorce and remarriage.

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.” —Jesus Christ

Because remarrying after a divorce constitutes adultery, we must ask ourselves who are we committing adultery against if we are no longer married? If a divorce makes us single why are we committing adultery AFTER a divorce and if we have no spouse AFTER a divorce then who are we committing adultery against?

The answer would have to be that it is against the one from whom we are divorced. This would mean that a divorce does not dissolve the marriage bond if we can still commit adultery AFTER the civil court proclaims that they have dissolved our marriage.

If divorce truly ended marriage, it would be impossible to commit adultery AFTER divorcing. The fact that Jesus Himself says that the adultery kicks in AFTER a divorce must mean that divorce is powerless to actually end the marriage covenant that God has said is for life.

“A wife is married to her husband as long as he lives.” 1 Corinthians 7:39

Many, many people today are deceived.

If a divorce makes us single, why are we then committing adultery while on a honeymoon with a new partner AFTER a divorce?

People don’t get it, the divorce didn’t work…Jesus said so.

Divorced people are off limits, they are still bound to another. If you touch them you will be committing adultery, as stated by Jesus.

The civil court may declare someone’s marriage dissolved but Jesus does not agree with the civil court. He goes by a higher court…Luke16:18

“A wife is married to her husband as long as he lives.” 1 Corinthians 7:39

http://www.cadz.net/tony.html

http://www.cadz.net/remarriage.html

http://www.marriagedivorce.com/mdreform2.htm

A definite great read..Jim Bean

A definite great read..Tony Brown

I found a defination of love I thought was good. “Love means you care for anothers person’s well being more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you make” When you think about the love Christ had for us it fits and this is the love I am to copy. J.