The research for this report began a number of years ago in an attempt to find out what God’s Word has to say about divorce and remarriage. Is divorce wrong? Is the adultery in remarriage an act or a state? In what cases are divorce and remarriage permitted? What place do divorced and remarried couples have in the Church? Can the church accept them the same as any other married couple?
By Myron Horst
- God Hates Divorce
- Those who can never divorce
- How Divorce and Remarriage are separate events and therefore are two separate, although related items for discussion.
- God makes the man and woman one
- What is the Act or Action that is Adultery in Remarriage?
- Why divorce is not adultery
- What is significant about adultery in remarriage?
- Adultery in Remarriage: An Act or a State?
- The interesting illustration of God and Israel’s divorce
- What is clarified about divorce and remarriage by the example of God and Israel’s divorce?
- Further Scriptural evidence that the first marriage is not ended by divorce
- How remarriage does not end the first marriage
- What does God say can end a marriage?
- What does the “exception clause” mean?
- The teaching of the Rabbis in Jesus’ day
- How divorce among Christians is disobedience to God’s command not to take a believer to court.
- How Divorce Removes One From Fellowship With God –The need for Forgiveness and Reconciliation
- “If anyone does not provide for his own”
- Does it make a difference if a couple is divorced and remarried before they become Christians?
- How the marriage vow of a remarried couple does not supersede God’s law
- How grace does not stop remarriage from being sin
- How the hardness of one’s heart does not make the sins of divorce and remarriage right
- Why “put away” means “to divorce”, not merely “to separate” in Matt. 5:32 and Matt. 19:9
- Does “not under bondage” mean a person can remarry?
- How the culture in Jesus’ day was very much like ours today
- What the early Christians wrote about divorce and remarriage
- How the inaccuracy of the NIV has changed the way the church views divorce and remarriage.
- How children do not get a true father when the divorced mother remarries.
- What if the Remarried Couple has Children by the Second Marriage?
- Why a remarried couple needs to separate
- What if a couple was divorced and remarried before they became Christians?
- The need to work at reconciliation with the first marriage partner
- Is a previously single person who married a divorced person free to remarry?
- Marriage is only of this earth and is temporary
- The role of Grace in Remarriage situations
- How dating prepares more for divorce than for marriage.
- How having a personal secretary can lead to divorce and remarriage
- The Marriage of Christ and the Church
- We can believe whatever we want on divorce and remarriage, but…
- How the Church is wearying God
- Is the way too narrow, too hard?
- Everyone will not accept what Jesus said on divorce and remarriage
- What if this article makes you mad?
- For those who are single or divorced
- Covenants, Vows and Christians
(ZO): John the Baptist, one of God’s greatest men (1), lost his head because he told king Herod he could not have his brothers wife. This he told Herod after they were already married. So if John’s proclamation to Herod was according to God’s law (Romans 7:3), do we think Jesus’ death on the cross (grace) would nullify what John told Herod, and make John’s death pointless? Also, why would God put His laws concerning divorce and remarriage into His Word, knowing full well that His people would read them, then totally trash them on the Cross through grace. (2).
And do not commit adultery, nor touch any other man’s wife, nor desire her; but covet that which is your own business.
Whether you are saved or unsaved, it does not matter: God’s law applies to everyone no matter what state you are in.
(1) Jesus expressed the frankest appreciation of John, declaring him to be more than a prophet, and that he was indeed God’s messenger sent to prepare the way for him, Matt. 11:10-19.
(2) Once saved always saved and remarriage before becoming Christians ect.
by Larry Yeatts
