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To: CindyDawg
Oh, after you read it would you tell me what do you think is meant by "the husband of one wife?

Not more than one (polygamy).

It's just that my preacher thinks this meant a minister could not be divorced and remarried because the first wife would still count. I'm thinking well what if this guy has a calling but had problems before he was saved or maybe he just had a slutty wife that ran off or something.

Interesting question. We don't have "divorce" so the only thing we can do is determine if the first marriage was valid or not. An interesting twist is that the marriage of two unsaved people can be voided if the one gets saved and the other does not and the unsaved is a threat to the other's faith.

Philosophically speaking, I don't think that a congregation would want as pastor a man who could not keep his vows.

SD

51,181 posted on 05/02/2003 7:10:30 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
I don't think that a congregation would want as pastor a man who could not keep his vows

Me either. I just knew someone who had been divorced (both at fault) got saved and went to a seminary and became a preacher.

51,373 posted on 05/04/2003 6:44:12 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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