This, I believe may be so but I am not convinced.
I do believe that it states clearly a man can remarry when his wife has commited fornication (not just lust in her heart), & there is divorce & that is the only reason God Allows for divorce, according to The Word.
I personally believe, as is you stated, that for good reason, God Gives us our own ability to intrepret scripture, thus we are each held acountable. If it were otherwise, then another would be held accountable for our sins. One has to be careful when interpreting & sharing their interpretations, as I can see you are, but it is that HE CALLS us to follow HIS WORD, & we hear HIS VOICE.
I believe there are expectations that God Has For us, when we fail, we dont' ahve to fling ourselves off the mountain, but it is about reordering our life that it be pleasing to GOD.
Part of the beauty of being a CHRISTIAN is that we ARE able to interpret for ourselves HIS WORD, HIS NAME IS PLACED Upon our hearts, our minds & our souls, that we may live forever!
That's why having a bible nearby & concordance is helpful, that we read THE WORD & thus improve our walk.
I find it fascinating to hear people's interpretations (doesn't mean I am necessarily influenced by ;) ), I believe there are many & it is this accountability that we each walk out, & with HIM, toward our own salvation.
"I agree that the rules for remarriage are to be followed...however if adultery which is the only reason God gives for divorce has occurred by either partner...the other is free to remarry under new covenant tradition."
adoring1 Wrote:In the old testament, there exists no restrictions on the number of wives just as there were no restrictions about marriage between siblings and cousins. At the time of creation there was one man and one woman and the directive from God to go forth and multiply made it necessary to take as spouses sisters and brothers at one point and as generations grew cousins. Thus Solomon had 500 wives. God was angered with Solomon not because of his number of wives but because he married women that were of non-Jewish lineage from outside of the monotheastic tradition. The edict about one wife at a time shows up for the first time in new testament instruction. One of the clearest passages in the bibical Greek occurs in the section of the bible that gives criteria for being a deacon. It states in English and German translations that a deacon must have only one wife...in the greek it states clearly one wife at a time, in essence deacons and other church leadership were not to be married to more than one woman at the same time. Old testament tradition declared that when a woman was widowed the brother of her deceased husband had the responsibility to marry her and provide for her offspring...therefore many Jewish men were required by Mosaic law to marry second and sometimes third wives, which is another example of there being no restriction on the number of wives old testament husbands could have. I agree that the rules for remarriage are to be followed...however if adultery which is the only reason God gives for divorce has occurred by either partner...the other is free to remarry under new covenant tradition. Wives who have had adulterous spouses are not condemned to a solitary life under the new covenant. God's intent is that marriage should be entered into soberly...with maturity....for life. However men who leave their wives for other women under circumstances other than adultery do not continue to have spiritual authority over those that they have abandoned which is the intent of the bonds of marriage. This was not true in the Hebrew translations nor is this found in the Greek.
