When is re-marriage not a sin?

Posted : 26 Oct, 2024 08:54 PM

A lot of people seem to be under the impression that when you commit the sin of divorce, and then you ask for forgiveness, that the forgiveness you have received means God has given you the green light to remarry. God's forgiveness doesn't change the fact that you divorced against God's law so that hasn't changed.

If you do remarry then you're just adding another sin on top of the original sin. So if you do that, then of course you can get forgiveness for that. BUT that forgiveness doesn't cover you for the ongoing sin that you will be committing everyday you remain married to someone other than your original spouse.

It's like this: If you steal an item and then ask for forgiveness, but then rather than return what you stole, you keep it and use it like it always belonged to you. Does your forgiveness automatically make the item yours? Here's another more extreme example: If you commit the sin of murder and then God forgives you of that murder, does that mean that all murders you commit going forward are also automatically forgiven?

I think people really miss the boat, either out of ignorance or on purpose. I say that because so far I've seen nothing in the scriptures to indicate you're not sinning if you get divorced and remarried against God's wishes, even when you ask for forgiveness. Staying in that type of a relationship is just repeating the original sins.

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