What a disgusting article. With the AG leadership and others being so accepting of divorce and remarriage among church leadership, it just gives everyone else the impression that those actions are permissible.
I interpret Scripture to read that while divorce is sometimes allowed (as in the case of adultery), remarriage is permitted much less. If I’m wrong, maybe someone can help explain these Scriptures:
I Cor 7:10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. 11But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.
Matthew 19:9 9I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
Malachi 2:15-17 (New International Reader's Version)
Hasn't God made the two of you one?
Both of you belong to him in body and spirit.
And why has he made you one?
Because he was looking for godly children.
So guard yourself in your spirit.
Don't break your promise
to the wife you married when you were young.
"I hate divorce," says the Lord God of Israel.
"I hate it
when people do anything that harms others,"
says the Lord who rules over all.
So guard yourself in your spirit.
And don't break your promises.
You have worn the Lord out by what you keep saying.
"How have we worn him out?" you ask.
You have done it by saying,
"All those who do evil
things are good in the Lord's sight.
And he is pleased with them."
Part of the problem, Joann, is that too many people believe they have the God given right to interpret Scripture. Hence the confusion. Is private interpretation of the Bible condoned in the Bible Itself? No, it is not (2 Peter 1:20). Was individual interpretation of Scripture practiced by the early Christians or the Jews? Again, "NO" (Acts 8:29-35). The assertion that individuals can correctly interpret Scripture is false. Even the "founder" of Sola Scriptura (Martin Luther), near the end of his life, was afraid that "any milkmaid who could read" would found a new Christian denomination based on his or her "interpretation" of the Bible. Luther opened a "Pandora's Box" when he insisted that the Bible could be interpreted by individuals and that It is the sole authority of Christianity. Why do we have over 20,000 different non-Catholic Christian denominations? The reason is individuals' "different" interpretations of the Bible.