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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Millions of Christians have divorced and remarried and I doubt that all of them interpret Matthew 5:32 this way.

Doesn't need interpreting, it means exactly what Jesus said and He didn't equivocate.

Matt 5-32,"But I say unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife except for the cause of fornication causes her to commit adultery, and whoso ever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery."

Mark 10:11 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Luke 16:18 “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery".

How much clearer could Jesus be, adultery is the only biblical justification for divorce, period, end of story.

69 posted on 07/18/2015 5:31:42 PM PDT by epow (Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: epow; All

Problem is, the Apostle Paul said (1 Corinthians 7:15) that if the unbelieving spouse wants a divorce, the Christian mate is not bound to them.

Paul couldn’t have been talking about just divorce, because the unbeliever could get a divorce and regardless of what the believer wanted, the believer could not stop them and make the unbeliever bound to them and the marriage.

Paul was talking about remarriage.

So there are at least two grounds for getting remarried, but yet not all Christians agree on this translation.

So do we need a Christian baker refusing them if they disagree with them on 1 Cor. 7:15?


78 posted on 07/20/2015 2:59:54 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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