"to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord (God's commandment to the married): A wife is not to depart from her husband. But even if she does depart (get a divorce), let her remain unmarried or be reconciled (remarried) to her husband." (Same commands apply to husbands. Don't divorce, don't marry another.)
So what if God says a divorced person shouldn't marry someone else in 1 Corinthians 7:11, that they should remain alone for the rest of their life or be reconciled to their wife/husband.
"You don't understand "my" situation."
"You don't know what kind of monster my ex is."
"I have needs."
"He doesn't understand because never had to endure this, so He can't possibly relate."
"I don't think God would want me to be alone for the rest of my life."
Help me out here. What are some other reasons why God is clueless with His false expectations for the life of the divorced?
Tell everyone why it's ridiculous to think God's nonsense plan will work.
"A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord."1 Corinthians 7"
Key words, ONLY IN THE LORD.
IF HER HUSBAND IS DEAD, SHE IS AT LIBERTY TO BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER...
Romans 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: BUT IF HER HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS FREE FROM THAT LAW; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
1 Timothy 5:6 But she that liveth in pleasure is DEAD WHILE SHE LIVETH.
We find the law is dead and we are no longer married to it. The same way, a non believer is dead, while they live. When the non believer departs, it is death departing. Then we are truly free to be married in the Lord and to the Lord.
This is rightly dividing the word of truth, not a mere opinion, and attempt to grab one or two verses desperately together.
The next part that deceivers must leave out, is the peace part, and avoiding fornication. A man cannot be marrying to avoid fornication, and then the situation change when his unbelieving wife departs, and this time without reconciliation, as she is fornicating with the world and with who they please.
God's judgement is one and the same, to avoid fornication the man can have his own wife, when he has no wife as the wife was dead while she lives, he can choose a believer wife who is then living with him in Christ.
Righteousness is how God does all statutes, and man can only show his unrighteous ways..
1 Corinthians 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
Revelation 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Dead, not alive, the same for anyone who challenges Gods right ways is truly dead and will be deader..
Luke 9:60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. Romans 11:15. 1 Corinthians 7:39
2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Ephesians 2:5
Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Colossians 2:13 1 Peter 4:6
Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Revelation 3:1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I KNOW THY WORKS, THAT THOU HAST A NAME THAT THOU LIVEST, AND ART DEAD.
Well, I'm a Christian too and should I and my new love wish to remarry, God's blessing will be on it.
Although the Bible does say that God hates divorce, maybe it does not say that some of us weren't married in a church anyway.
Some of the quotes of the "Lion" on here quite honestly made me laugh.
We all have free will and God knows us women are not all spending our waking hours fornicating. (Like those honourably married women, if one can call it that, we have shopping to do, children or grandchildren to look after, creative projects of our own, grooming, friends and church, to name but a few things we do).
Why judge THE DIVORCED?
We made a mistake and we were honest enough to terminate the marriage. I would say most of us did not do this with a smile and a hop.
Firstly, The whole point of marriage was two fold. 1. to stop the hedonistic warfare upon society by the male psychopaths and the female prostitutes in society. 2. To express oneness and unity.
Back in the time of warlords and harems, polygamy decimated whole societies and prostitutes would kill their babies and beta males would roam the country side. Marriage was to prevent alpha males dumping "old women" for virgins and to stop female prostitution and stripping male power by sexually whipping beta males by going after the provision of violent warlords.
It also meant that all members of a society could evenly spread their genes instead of only alphas.
Marriage was NOT about "love"(temporary lusts and wishful fulfillments of ego), it was about a framework that prevents your/our sinful and diabolical nature/s from destroying society. The framework prevents alpha men from having multiple women and prevent women from dumping beta men and strutting around with their cleavage and long legs showing and using their bodies to get provisions. That is why the bible says you are not permitted to divorce (because its a cop out and an excuse to go back to your lusts for power and self enrichments).
Finally but not least. marriage was/is a gnostic principle, a principle of complete knowing, complete trust and no fear in the presence of God. Oneness, unity and completness... therefore NO DIVORCE. (because you can't divorce because you love is eternal).
Jesus Christ (God) was very clear. We DO NOT get to have an opinion on what we think the bible means about this or that. God stipulates 3 items concerning divorce and remarriage...
1. If two people marry and divorce for any reason other than adultery, both individuals are to remain unmarried indefinitely.
2. If one member of the union (husband or wife) commits adultery, and the other divorces them for the reason, the guilty party remains single indefinitely. The innocent member is free to remarry.
3. If a person who is able to marry or remarry marries a person guilty of adultery, both parties are then guilty of adultery.
God's plan for those who're divorced can and does work. What does NOT work is for humans to supersede God's written decree and think they're justified. We're to grow and try to be as Christ-like as possible. Many people (even those who call themselves 'christians') are either ignorant or careless as to God's New Testament teachings really say, namely that sin has very real consequences. Adultery is one such that God is very clear about. Matthew 5: 27-32; 19:1-8.
I personally know a couple of individuals who're guilty one way or another. Living a life that is pleasing to God does not require marriage or sexual activity for that matter.
"Firstly, The whole point of marriage was two fold. 1. to stop the hedonistic warfare upon society by the male psychopaths and the female prostitutes in society. 2. To express oneness and unity."
Marriage began in the garden of Eden, where there were no male psychopaths, no female prostitutes, and no hedonism. "And He answered and said to them, �Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning �made them male and female� and said, �For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh�? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.�" - Jesus Christ Matthew 19:4-6
<God has the exact same attributes in the exact proportion and arrangement in the New Testament as He did in the Old Testament. To point to certain attributes and to say He had them in one testament, and to point to others in the other testament, is to suggest some change in His character.
Of the 275 times the word "mercy" appears in scripture, 221 are in the Old Testament, and the vast majority are related directly to the character of God. The is not an attribute that God acquired in the New Testament."
From what I have read in the posts here, no one has even suggested any of what you posted.
Of course God has the same attributes. No one suggested otherwise. Yes, mercy was something that God had in both testaments.
The testaments, though, show a different application of that mercy. The Old Testament looks toward Jesus, while the New Testament points back to Him at all times. In the Old Testament, there was no permanent covering for sin...i.e., mercy. That is why there was an annual day of atonement along with sin offerings throughout the year. That is why there was a continual sacrifice day and night before God.
The Old Testament's "mercy"...was applied differently in the days before Jesus. Once Jesus, came, scripture says that He sat down on the right hand of God having made a permanent atonement for ALL sin. That includes past, present, and future, once you have accepted Jesus as Lord and asked for forgiveness.
God didn't change His attributes. Gave the same mercy in different ways. The blood of Jesus on the Cross allowed restoration between God the Father and mankind. That is when we see the Holy Spirit coming to dwell inside us because there is now a permanent atonement...i.e., mercy...for us compared to the Old Testament.
That is exactly what the book of Hebrews talks about...it says the Old Covenant (Testament) was dissolved and the New was instituted. And it was all through Jesus' sacrifice for us. The New Testament is full of scriptures and is perfectly clear that the mercy is given through Jesus. I think that's why it's not mentioned as much because most of the New Testament was written to a body of believers somewhere in the world, where that mercy was already understood. In the Old Testament, that wasn't the case, so the discussion of needing it was more prevalent.
